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Logan’s Rogues Gallery

Albert and Elsie-Dee

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Species: Android

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #37 (1991)

A pair of anti-Wolverine robots created by Donald Pierce, Albert and Elsie-Dee are an Evil Knockoff and Tyke-Bomb respectively. Despite being created to kill Wolverine even (and in Elsie-Dee's case, expressly) in the event of their own personal destructions, they both Grew Beyond Their Programming and have been Walking the Earth ever since.
Albert appears as a boss in the Sega Genesis version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage. Elsie-Dee is also used as a gameplay mechanic throughout the game, giving Wolverine a timer to complete missions before she catches up to him and does her thing.

A.I. Is a Crapshoot: They were created to kill Wolverine, but eventually rejected their mission and made peace with the Canucklehead. In Elsie-Dee's specific case, Pierce intended to stunt her sense of self-preservation by halting her logical development at the level of a 5-year-old but botched it and granted her full logical capacity.
Always Save the Girl: The reason why Elsie-Dee exists. Creator Donald Pierce knows Wolverine subscribes to this, and so created Dee as a type of laser-guided Flaw Exploitation.
Androids Are People, Too: They were eventually adopted into Marvel's version of the Canadian Siksika Tribe.
Artificial Intelligence: As mentioned above, Elsie-Dee was mistakenly given full artificial intelligence by Donald Pierce. Albert was initially your generic one-track mind Killer Robot, but in a bid to preserve her own existence Elsie-Dee upgraded him with full intelligence too.
Baby Talk: Elsie-Dee's speech is an excruciating case.
A Day in the Limelight: Albert and Elsie-Dee star their own miniseries iWolverine for the Iron Man 2020 (Event) storyline.
Detachment Combat: Elsie-Dee's extremities are apparently Easily Detachable Robot Parts. She once took off her own head and threw it at Cable as a weapon.
Evil Knockoff: Albert is a knockoff Wolverine to the core.
Frame-Up: To attract Wolverine's attention and put heat on him, the duo set off on a robbery spree, forcing him to Clear My Name.
Grew Beyond Their Programming: Both of them.
Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Albert's the Huge Guy (well, huge relative to his companion), Elsie-Dee's the Tiny Girl.
Laser-Guided Tyke-Bomb: Elsie-Dee is compelled by her programming to home in on Wolverine and self-detonate.
Named After Somebody Famous: Surprisingly enough, Albert is not named for the Alberta province of Canada, but was instead given his name by Elsie-Dee in honor of Albert Einstein (who he was comparable in intelligence to after being upgraded by his partner).
Punny Name: Elsie-Dee's name is a play on LCD, as in LCD electronic display. Har har.
Really 700 Years Old: Being robots, they will both live to this age (and well beyond). An issue set 300 years in the future featured Albert and Elsie-Dee "teaming up" with the similarly long-lived Wolverine rogue Bloodscream (not realizing that Bloodscream was still an enemy of Wolverine).
Walking the Earth: What they've been doing since making peace with Wolverine.
Why Am I Ticking?: Elsie-Dee doesn't literally tick (in the comics, anyway) but she is a literal tykebomb. Every part of her body that is not her frame, motor, battery, or hardware is plastic explosives.
Wolverine Publicity: Despite being very minor characters in the grand scheme of things, these two got a ton of publicity during the '90s (as did every character even remotely connected to Wolverine).

Birdy

Nationality: Canadian, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men Vol. 2, #6 (1992)

"Yes, boss!"

A mutant mercenary who had the bad luck to be sent after Sabretooth, Birdy was captured and Reforged into a Minion, appearing in the present day as Sabretooth's Perky Female Minion of choice. Despite appearing in no more than half a dozen issues in total, cameo appearances in X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 elevated Birdy's recognizability considerably. Despite this, she was not resurrected until the foundation of of the mutant state on Krakoa.

Back from the Dead: Mystique and Destiny see to it that she is resurrected by the Five on Krakoa. She is later seen as part of Nightcrawler's Legionaries.
Bodyguarding a Badass: Put to work as Sabretooth's bodyguard, though her real value to Creed was that she was...
The Empath: A subtle but very effective example as Birdy was able to enter the minds of others and temporarily relieve them of the pain of past traumas, a procedure Sabretooth called "the glow" for the euphoric sensation he would feel afterward. This led, at least in the comics, into a Descent into Addiction for Sabretooth, as he became more and more reliant on Birdy's powers to maintain his fragile stability. When she died, he was so devastated that he surrendered himself into the custody of the X-Men, purely out of the hope that one of their telepaths would be able to replicate the glow for him.
Fights Like a Normal: Despite being able to pull off some combat-oriented tricks with her Psychic Powers, Birdy fought more like one of these, carrying a BFG into battle and favoring More Dakka.
Indentured Servitude: Forced into this by Sabretooth after she was sent after him by a Hong Kong Triad boss and captured. Despite being paid well, working for an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight was more trouble than it was worth, and Birdy spent much of her short panel-time trying to find a way out of her service to Sabes.
Killed Off for Real: By a spiteful Graydon Creed.
Minion with an F in Evil: Not nearly as evil as her boss, and in truth she didn't even really want to work for him.
Only Known by Their Nickname: To date Birdy is known only by, well... Birdy. Whether that's a codename, a nickname, or her actual name has never been revealed.
Perky Female Minion: Appeared at first to be this, though the comics quickly revealed that it was just a front. Her adaptational appearances play it straight, though, turning her into a kind of Harley Quinn to Sabretooth's Joker.
Psychic Powers: Largely in her capacity as The Empath, though Birdy also had Telepathy and a limited degree of Biomanipulation.
Targeted to Hurt the Hero: Invoked, as Graydon Creed realized that killing Birdy was the most effective (and probably only) way he could hurt his hated father.
We Hardly Knew Ye: She appeared in exactly six issues and was killed off in less than a year. It took over twenty years for her to be revived.
Wolverine Publicity: A low-key case of this, but Birdy's cameo appearances in the Capcom vs. line made her instantly recognizable to even casual fans as "Sabretooth's Perky Female Minion".

Bloodscream

Nationality: British

Species: Human pseudo-vampire

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #4

"Now has come an ending, Master Patch. An ending to all your days."

Once a ship's surgeon who sailed with Sir Francis Drake, Bloodscream was cursed with immortality and a thirst for blood when, after he was fatally wounded, Drake forced a native healer to raise him from the dead. Trapped as a vampiric monster, and desiring an end to his condition, Bloodscream began seeking out another immortal to prey upon, believing that only the blood of a being such as himself could free him from the curse. After meeting Logan during the 1940s and again in the present day, he comes to believe that Logan is an immortal, and is intent on taking his blood, believing it will finally bring him peace.
Bloodscream appears as a boss in the Sega Genesis version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.

Death Seeker: He seeks an end to his immortal life, but nothing so far has managed to kill him in any way that stuck.
Ludicrous Gibs: During one battle, Ant-Man kills him by allowing himself to be swallowed and then returning to full size.
No Man of Woman Born: He is specifically mentioned as being invulnerable to any weapon forged by mortal hands. Naturally, anyone and everyone who encounters him has some handy weapon to get around this, from demon-forged katanas to a blade in Iron Man's armor that was made by a Stark Industries drone.
One-Winged Angel: When Bloodscream is hungry or hurt he becomes a monster. This image◊ pretty much says it all.
Our Vampires Are Different: Technically speaking he's not a vampire at all, though one could be forgiven for the mistake.
Really 700 Years Old: He was born in the 16th century and became immortal in 1580, putting him at somewhere just upwards of 400 years old in the present day.
Those Wacky Nazis: He fought in World War II as a Wehrmacht soldier.
The Undead: He is specifically mentioned as not being a true vampire, but rather a powerful undead creature.

Citadel

Citadel / Weapon Y

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Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Wolverine: First Class #5 (2008)

Citadel was a soldier that was grafted adamantium skin from the Canadian Government and dubbed Weapon Y. Citadel and his men would hold the Governor General of Canada captive and come into conflict with Wolverine, Snowbird, Aurora and Shaman.

Anti-Villain: In his first appearance, he just wanted justice for what was done to him and his squad against their wills. Later appearances saw him degenerate into a more typical villain.
Attack Its Weakpoint: Like Cyber below, there's only one part of his body that can be attacked, but unlike Cyber his Healing Factor is at Wolverine levels so even if he's blinded, he'll just quickly regenerate.
The Big Guy: He's 6'7" and 500 lbs of mostly adamantium.
Death Is Cheap: Supposedly died of adamantium poisoning, only to show up again none the worse for wear.
Nigh-Invulnerability: He's basically just a better Cyber, being physically fortified with adamantium just like him except that it's been crafted to his entire body, leaving only his eyes untouched.
One-Steve Limit: Averted, as a Weapon Y appeared before him, but that Weapon Y was a one-shot joke character that only existed for Fabian Nicieza to make fun of Rob Liefeld.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only known as Citadel or Weapon Y. He had a real name but was tasered into submission before he could tell it to Logan.
Remember the New Guy?: Retconned in as the last villain Wolverine faced before he was recruited to the X-Men.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's been in less than ten issues but seeing what happened to Citadel was what convinced Wolverine to abandon Department H and join the X-Men.
Super-Strength: Wolverine gauges his strength at Colossus-level, so he's on the upper end of the badguy strongman scale.
What Happened to the Mouse?: He was last seen in the fourth (and last currently, as of 2020) volume of Alpha Flight, working for a Psycho Rangers team put together by Department K.

Contagion

Winsor / Contagion

Nationality: Latverian

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Wolverine: The Best There Is Vol. 1, #1

"I am not interested in conflicted antagonists. Nor, for that matter, is anyone else. People want a bad guy they can hate unequivocally. Someone whose brutal demise they can cheer without remorse. Life, sadly, rarely treats them to such a luxury. And here are all these actors, trying to muddy things with moral complexity. #### that, I say. And I'll not have it. I am not the hero in my own story. I am the bad guy. I have no end in mind that justifies my means. There are no skeletons in my closet, no abusive childhood or inciting misery that might expiate my vile behavior. Nor am I insane. I know the difference between good and evil. And I am fully capable of empathizing with the pain, emotional or physical, of others. No sociopath, I. Rather, I simply prefer bad over good. Wrong over right. Sick over healthy. Untrue over true."

The result of a Latverian eugenics program, Mr. Winsor, alias Contagion, has a body containing every disease known to man at the time of his creation. Gathering a group of immortals to himself, Winsor repeatedly infects them with his diseases, alternately using them as test subjects and enforcers. With a goal of eventually exterminating all life in the universe, Contagion is as bad as even Wolverine's adversaries can get.

Abusive Parents: Had one in the form of Doctor Doom and was one to his son Flip.
Arc Villain: Of the miniseries Wolverine: The Best There Is.
Card-Carrying Villain: See the Comic Books page. Contagion knows what he is and just does not care.
Even Evil Has Standards: Played for Laughs. Contagion wanted to wipe out everything with the perfect plague, but even he wouldn't stoop to serving his guests Cristal.
Contagion: Standards must be maintained.
Master of Your Domain: His first step in developing control of his powers was meditating to the point he can contain or release his infectiousness. It's signified by him having an open third eye in some shots. Once he bypassed the mental block preventing him from infecting himself, he could tailor make beneficial viruses that allowed him to freely modify his physiology for superpowers.
Mind Virus: He can make his thoughts contagious to stave off telepathic intrusion.
No Biochemical Barriers: Played straight but his Evil Plan entails subverting this so he can infect literally anything and everything.
Omnicidal Maniac: His ultimate goal was the creation of a virus that would cause the complete Cessation of Existence of everything, even the afterlife.
Plaguemaster: See that part about his body containing every disease known to man? Not an exaggeration. He can even construct new ones he conceives of within himself tailor made to incapacitate if not eventually kill specific targets.
Power Limiter: An involuntary version; he had a psychic block that kept him from infecting himself — until Wolverine uses a Mind Control drug on him and gives him the order to "fix his DNA", which Contagion interprets creatively.
Semantic Superpower: Verges on this after his power-up. For instance, he repels the psychich attack of Emma Frost by "making [his] thoughts contagious".
Villain in a White Suit: Wears a mostly white suit and he's an unrepentant omnicidal.
Walking Wasteland: Before he had control of his infectiousness he had to be quarantined. Even afterwards, harming him isn't a viable option, as any injury will release every virus within him, depopulating the area if not the world.

Cookie Malone

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Species: Human

First Appearance: Origin Vol. 1, #4

"Come on, boy! You want to give your old pal Cookie a shot? Let's see it then!."

A cook at the mining camp at Alberta, Canada, where Logan spent much of his formative years. He is a thug and thief who takes particular pleasure in tormenting young Logan.

Bait the Dog: During his first few encounters with Logan, he pretends to treat him nicely at first only to turn around and find some way to abuse him. After that he drops any pretense of pretending to be nice.
Big Bad Wannabe: He's clearly an antagonistic character and does provide some legitimate trouble in Origin, but the true antagonist of the story is Dog.
The Bully: He's the trope in its purest form, a big, dull-witted brute whose only joy in life is in pushing around people smaller than himself.
Bully Brutality: During one of the early times when he abused Logan, he seriously came close to drowning him.
Bullying a Dragon: Even after James starts developing from scrawny wimp into someone closer to the Wolverine everyone's familiar with, Cookie still tries to push him around. It goes as well as you can expect.
Dirty Coward: A classic bully, as soon as he loses the advantage, he swiftly rolls over and shows throat.
Fat Bastard: Heavily overweight, thanks in part to the implication that he's stealing camp rations for himself and is a scumbag of the highest order. Among other things, he regularly loots from other people at the camp, including graverobbing from the deceased, and sabotaging the mining crew's work leading to several deaths all to spite Logan.
Grave Robbing: As noted directly above, he was engaging in this when no one was looking. He even threw the diary of Wolverine's childhood friend Rose O'Hara into a fire after her death, just to spite him.
Hated by All: Everyone at the camp hated him long before James came along, and it only got worse from there. Likely the only reason he wasn't kicked out long before was because of his position.
Hate Sink: Every single one of this guy's appearances simply strives to make him more reprehensible.
The Sociopath: To the point that he seriously can't comprehend why Logan becomes more popular while he becomes more despised.

Cyber

Silas Burr / Cyber / Hornet

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human mutant cyborg

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents Vol. 1, #85 (1991)

"The time has come, the walrus said, to twist off Logan's head. To yank his brains out through his nose and hang it in the shed."

A psychopathic soldier and career criminal, Silas Burr was an early mutant who served as Wolverine's drill instructor in WWI and as his commanding officer in the Devil's Brigade during WWII. Surviving both conflicts, Cyber later trained Daken, who turned on him and left him for dead. Rebuilt by Romulus as an adamantium skinned cyborg, Cyber has a new set of powers and a new lease on life, while retaining his grudges against both Wolverine and Daken.
Cyber makes appearances as a boss in both versions of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage and in the 2001 Game Boy Color title X-Men: Wolverine's Rage.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: The claws on his fingers are, like the rest of his outside, coated with adamantium.
Always Someone Better: His character concept is rooted in this, as he is not only a better fighter than Wolverine but inflicted The Worf Effect on Wolverine in the past to such an intense degree that Wolverine feared him without even fully remembering who he was.
Amazing Technicolor Battlefield: He's not the final boss, but when you fight Cyber in the Sega Genesis version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage both the fight and the level itself take place in a trippy space dimension that's pretty much this trope incarnate, complete with Cyber-headed asteroids. Justified by Cyber poisoning Wolverine with his claws between levels, making the whole level a weird hallucination.
Attack Its Weak Point: His face, and especially his eyes, tend to take a lot of punishment during battles with Wolverine, as they are his one vulnerable area. After he steals Milo's body, his heart becomes this as Milo had grown too fast for his heart to keep up.
Ax-Crazy: Already violent and sociopathic, Cyber was rendered completely insane after Wolverine dropped him into a vat of hallucinogenic chemicals.
Big Dumb Body: Milo Gunderson, a mental handicaped superhuman of amazing strength, was this for Cyber when Romulus brought him back. He was described as "dead" and completely supplanted by Silas. Only existing in the narritive to show the villainy of the villains.
The Bully: As the site Writeups.Org says, he's "what every hateful bully dreams of being".
Cruel and Unusual Death: Subjected to this by Genesis, who locked him in a chamber and unleashed a swarm of flesh-eating mutant deathwatch beetles to get ahold of his adamantium skin. He got the skin, all right.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Inflicted two of these on Wolverine, once during their WWI days, and once after Magneto had stripped away the adamantium from Logan's bones, leaving him facing the adamantium skinned Cyber with only his bone claws.
Cut Lex Luthor a Check: He's got unbreakable skin, Super-Strength, the ability to find anyone anywhere, and claws that inject either hallucinogenic or toxic substances. What does he use this grab bag of Combo Platter Powers for? Basically just For the Evulz and basic thuggery.
Cyborg: After being revived by Romulus.
Deadpan Snarker: He's a veritable font of the sort of cruel, laconic one-liners one would expect from a cliched action movie villain.
Criminal: Are you the gentleman called Cyber?
Cyber: The name is correct. The description is questionable.
Death Is Cheap: He's come back from death twice now, though as of 2018, he's been reinvented so heavily that he barely resembles the character he started out as.
The Dreaded: The psychological scars left by his murder of Logan's lover and the subsequent No-Holds-Barred Beatdown that he doled out to him have made him into one of the few people that Logan genuinely fears.
Drill Sergeant Nasty: During WWI.
Electronic Eyes: He acquired one of these in his first incarnation after Wolverine relieved him of the natural one. Unlike many comic examples of this trope, it wasn't played up and by the art you could usually never tell.
Evil Counterpart: As a long-lived mutant with adamantium bonded to him, Cyber is another in a long line of evil counterparts to Wolverine.
Evil Is Bigger: At 6'4 and 365 lbs of muscle, Cyber was (like many '90s characters) huge and easily towered over the diminutive Wolverine.
Evil Is Petty: Much like fellow Logan villain Sabretooth, Cyber seems at his happiest when tormenting Wolverine and long ago gave up any motivation beyond For the Evulz.
Eye Scream: Cyber ripped out one of Logan's eyes after beating the shit out of him. The trauma involved is part of the reason why Logan is deeply afraid of him. Wolverine later took one of his eyes in revenge.
Foil: Cyber is a physical foil to Wolverine. Where Wolverine has adamantium bones and relies on his Healing Factor to keep his body intact, Cyber has adamantium skin, and relies on his Healing Factor to keep his internal organs intact.
Grand Theft Me: How he gets brought back to life ten years after being Eaten Alive. His spirit is summoned from the astral plane by Romulus, who arranges for him to possess mentally impaired Gentle Giant Milo Gunderson.
Healing Factor: Romulus' reconstruction of Cyber involved the implantation of a self-repair function. Even before that he had a low-level one of these, though it wasn't strong enough to allow him to regenerate damaged organs.
Heel–Face Turn: The demonic Black Terror (whose motive and goals were rather nebulous) let Cyber out of Hell and invited him to join the Slingers as the new Hornet because, according to BT, Cyber "wanted a second chance. He wanted to try and do good." While it's highly likely that the "Black Terror" and Cyber were merely feigning benevolence it's made a bit gray by the fact that they didn't really do anything morally dubious outside of antagonizing and threatening to kill the Scarlet Spider's admittedly shady benefactor Cassandra Mercury (albeit at the behest of Cassandra's equally shady brother, Silas).
Immune to Bullets: Mostly. Since his face is the only part of him not coated in adamantium he is theoretically vulnerable to a Boom, Headshot!, though he is smart enough to know this and usually shields his face accordingly in firefights.
Informed Ability: Trading cards stated that Cyber had the ability to use Mind Control, either telepathically or through hypnotic drugs administered through his claws. This was an ability never shown in the comics, though with the drugs it at was at least implied all of once.
Karmic Injury: See Eye Scream above.
Kick the Dog: In another similarity with Sabretooth, Cyber is fond of killing Wolverine's paramours For the Evulz. He killed a young woman named Jane that Logan was romancing, and when he objected beat him brutally.
Legacy Character: He has recently taken the codename of Hornet to replace the one Wolverine killed.
The Mentally Disturbed: After falling in a vat of hallucinogens, Cyber was left with only a tenuous connection to reality as we know it, and at times seems to think he's living in the works of Lewis Carroll.
Mutants: Originally, he was a mutant with longevity, mild Super-Strength and psionic tracking. Since his resurrection most of his powers seem to have come from Romulus' modifications.
Nigh-Invulnerability: Downplayed. Cyber's adamantium skin makes him nearly impervious to any attack that Wolverine, his allies, or his rogues gallery can dish out. There are plenty of characters in the Marvel universe, however, who have sufficient strength to harm Cyber through his impenetrable skin.
Older Than They Look: Despite being over a hundred years old, Cyber retains the build and appearance of a man in his prime. Like most Wolverine villains, this is thanks to a Healing Factor.
Pinkerton Detective: Mentioned as being one of these in his backstory. Hey, they can't all have been good guys!
Poison and Cure Gambit: One of his favorite rackets is to inject someone with a slow-acting venom using his poisonous fingers and then force the victim to do whatever he wants with the promise of an antidote.
Poisoned Weapons: The claws in his fingers are loaded with toxic chemicals. One hand injects poison, the other the same hallucinogens he was dosed with.
Psychic Powers: Has Weak, but Skilled ones, as he has no telepathy or telekinesis but instead has an ability called 'psionic tracking' that allows him to basically find anyone, anywhere, at any time. This ability also allowed him to survive his death, as his consciousness passed on through it onto the astral plane where it remained until Romulus brought him back.
Psychotic Smirk: Seemed to perpetually wear one of these as a Drill Sergeant Nasty in WWI.
Really 700 Years Old: Was already middle aged at the outbreak of the first World War and has given hints that he was alive for most of the nineteenth century, having worked with graverobbers Burke and Hare.
Scarily Competent Tracker: He has used his psionic tracking ability to great effect over the years.
Serial Killer: He was charged with 22 counts of murder in 1912 and has doubtlessly killed dozens if not hundreds of people since then.
The Sociopath: A pretty textbook example, shown most effectively in a flashback where he stood trial for wartime atrocities. When called to the stand, he cracked jokes about his crimes and catcalled to the other members of his platoon in attendance.
Super-Strength: Strong enough to smash a car with one hand.
Talkative Loon: After receiving a dose of hallucinogens, Cyber was left totally off his rocker and apparently unable to shut up.
Villain Team-Up: Accordingly in light of their numerous similarities, Cyber has worked with Sabretooth before, with Creed helping him escape his hanging sentence in the early 1900s. He's also worked with the Dark Riders, Daken, and Romulus.
The Worf Effect: He beat Wolverine very badly when he was still relatively young (and Cyber still relatively unknown), instilling such a deep dread in the young Logan that he would dread a rematch with Cyber almost 100 years later. Genesis later subjects him to this, albeit with a little help from his 'mutant deathwatch beetles'.

Daken

Daken / Akihiro

First Appearance: Wolverine: Origins Vol. 1, #5

"I never knew my father. I was raised... to be someone different than him. And now I'm supposed to be him. I never asked for that, but when the opportunity found me... I was curious. I wanted to know what it was like. To have people look at me and see... my father."

Akihiro is the son of Wolverine and his deceased wife Itsu. Blessed with his dad's Wolverine Claws (although with a twist or two there) and Healing Factor, as well as the added ability to give off pheromones, Daken is a Younger and Hipper, Darker and Edgier version of his dad, who was the dark and edgy poster child of the '70s-'90s. He loves Xanatos Gambits, and seducing people just to prove he can, is apparently omnisexual (or at least bisexual) and smart enough to dupe Norman Osborn and Reed Richards — but still gets his ass handed to him by his father. Speaking of dad, Daken has quite a few daddy issues. Akihiro as since gone through a Heel–Face Turn and began patching things up with his father.

See Marvel Comics: Daken

Doctor Rot

Bentley Newton / Algernon J. Rottwell / Doctor Rot

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Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine: Weapon X Vol. 1, #6

Bentley Newton was a madman who was sent to Dunwich Sanitorium and was diagnosed incurable. He was locked in a special place that was made for him. He caused a riot and took control of the Sanitorium, letting the patients take the place of workers and killing the workers to take their brains.

Emotion Bomb: In spite of his insanity, he invented a device that runs on human brains capable of clouding thought. Psylocke saids it's all she can do to shield the X-Men from the effects, as she feels it shred through her thoughts.
Mad Doctor: Emphasis on the "mad", as he was committed. Was interred in an asylum that turned the insane into "lone wolf" domestic terrorists for hire. He managed to take over and has the patients running the place while the orderlies and doctors are tortured.

Dog Logan

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human

First Appearance: Origin Vol. 1, #1 (2001)

The half-brother of James Howlett. A former servant on the Howlett estate. Now the Hellfire Academy's gym teacher.

Abusive Parents: His abusive, alcoholic father Thomas Logan frequently beat him for spending time with the upper class, mainly James and Rose.
Animal Motifs: Dogs like his name.
Art Evolution: In Origin, his hair was black as a boy then somehow lightened to blondish as an adult (raising comparisons to Sabretooth), but now it's more of brownish. Then he's gotten facial hair as well.
Bad People Abuse Animals: He kills little James Howlett's puppy right in front of him out of jealousy.
Cain and Abel: With James Howlett. He is the Cain and his half-brother James Howlett is the Abel.
Empowered Badass Normal: He seems to be an ordinary human, not a mutant, but after the events of Origin he came across Time Diamonds that let him time-travel.
Evil Counterpart: A son of Thomas Logan from Howlett estate like Logan, he demonstrates how his brother might have turned out if he had allowed his resentments and issues to consume him.
Evil Former Friend: As a child he and James were close friends, now he wants to kill James.
Freudian Excuse: He's a victim of abuse who went on to abuse others.
I Hate Past Me: During Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics) (Vol. 1), his future self travelled back to try and make him into someone better than Logan. When Dog failed, his future self beat him up, mocking him for his inferiority (which soon resulted in present-day Dog killing him).
His Name Really Is "Barkeep": His name really is Dog; his father Thomas Logan gave him that name.
Honor Before Reason: When the Hellfire Academy collapses, Logan offers to help Dog get to safety. Dog adamantly refuses to let his hated brother save his life, choosing to jump into the Siege Perilous instead.
Identical Stranger: Bears an uncanny resemblance to Sabretooth. For years, fans speculated that they were one and the same, and X-Men Origins: Wolverine goes along with that idea, but recent stories have shown that they are in fact not the same individual, and he got his blond hair color changed to reflect this better. When the two actually meet, Victor gives a sort of Pretender Diss by calling him the guy who must be Logan's brother who no one knows or cares about. Dog fires back by calling him the guy who wishes he was Logan's brother.
Red Herring: Origin initially led the readers to believe that young Dog, Thomas Logan's son, was the boy who would grow up into Wolverine. Until the Wham Shot at the end of second issue that reveals it's James Howlett instead. Then the story seemed to imply he might actually be Sabretooth instead (despite issues like him bearing scars vs Sabretooth's healing factor), but the writers just invokedshrugged and it was ultimately ruled out.
The Resenter: Towards his brother who has a better life than he does, particularly after he found out they were brothers.
Rival Turned Evil: With Logan and his half-brother Dog, this is a straightforward example of the trope in action. Being former friends who have become enemies.
Scars Are Forever: He has three scars across his face, courtesy of Logan's claws. It's a bit downplayed currently compared to ''Origin' but his current facial hair helps in that regard.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: While "sweet" may be pushing it, he was a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at worst as a child.
Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Who names their kid "Dog"? Thomas Logan, that's who.

The Founder

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Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 4, #1

"I wish you could see it, father. The moment when it finally unfolds. When he realizes just what it is I've done to him. It's going to be glorious, just like I've always promised you. Just like I've always dreamed."

The Big Bad of over half of the 2010 Wolverine series and its tie-ins, the Founder is the leader of the Red Right Hand, an organization that is made up of revenge-maddened people who had all lost loved ones to Wolverine.

Bad Boss: He gets Daken to attend a sit down by sending henchmen after him, with no expectation of their survival, planned all along for the Mongrels to die, makes it bluntly clear to the other Red Right Hand members that the only way out of the organization is through death, disparages them as "weak-willed fools" behind their backs when a few of them express unease over causing the deaths of innocents in their vendetta against Wolverine, and has one killed when he goes rogue and tries to disregard the Founder's plans in favor of going after Logan himself.
Dartboard of Hate: His lair has defaced pictures of Wolverine in it, while his garden is decorated with statues of Logan, all of them in various states of agony.
Dead Man Writing: He and Wolverine never meet face to face; the closest that they ever come to interacting is when the Founder leaves behind a video for Logan to watch which explains the Red Right Hand's motives and who the Mongrels were.
Deal with the Devil: The Red Right Hand made a deal with a conglomeration of demons nicknamed the Hellverine, giving up their souls in exchange for getting Hell on their side in their war with Wolverine.
Dragged Off to Hell: He and the other Red Right Hand members are last shown entering Hell.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: His obsession with destroying Wolverine stems from Logan killing his beloved father in front of him when he was a boy, with the very first thing that the Founder did after his first (failed) attempt at revenge being to take out a photograph of his father and declare, "I did it, father. You are avenged." When the Founder goes to Hell after completing his final revenge and sees his father (or a simulacrum of him) there, he cries and hugs him while sobbing, "I did it."
Evil Mentor: He coerced the Old Woman into killing Sabretooth's mother and adopted the Son.
Evil Old Folks: He was born in the early 1900s, and by the events of the story is in his 90s or early 100s.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He has thick, black-rimmed glasses and is evil.
Go Out with a Smile: Their revenge against Wolverine complete, the Founder — as he and his followers drink their poisoned wine — toasts, "Die well, my friends. Die with victory in your hearts. Die with a smile."
Non-Action Big Bad: He made various attempts to kill Wolverine on his own in his youth, but eventually gave up on that and decided to just stick to and torment Logan from the shadows.
Only Known by Their Nickname: His real name is never mentioned, with the same going for all of the other Red Right Hand members besides the Husband (Roger).
Revenge by Proxy: Since Wolverine will just not die, the Founder decides that, along with torturing him physically, the Red Right Hand must also torture him emotionally, by going after the people that he cares about, and also by having him unknowingly kill his own children, the Mongrels.
The Founder: Now, at last, you know what it is like to be us. Welcome, James Howlett... to the Red Right Hand.
Riches to Rags: After his father died, the Founder was left destitute, reduced to working twelve hours a day in the very mines that his family once owned
Self-Serving Memory: He idealizes his father as a good and just man who never cheated or lied and who never mistreated anyone who "didn't deserve it". In reality, his father exploited his workers, and started killing them as a scare tactic when they went on strike.
Spiteful Suicide: He and the rest of the Red Right Hand members all commit mass suicide to rob Wolverine of the chance to kill them.
Stalker Shrine: He has a room brimming with Wolverine memorabilia.
Tragic Keepsake: He keeps a pocket watch with his father's picture in it.
Villain in a White Suit: He favors white suits, with matching white ties.
Where I Was Born and Razed: After buying back his father's mines, he fired everyone, and then set fire to the mines.
White Hair, Black Heart: Being an old man, what hair he has left is white.

Genesis

AKA: Tyler Dayspring, Tolliver, the Other

First Appearance (as Genesis): Cable Vol. 2, #18 (1994)

"You're going to be the new captain of my Dark Riders, Wolverine! A fitting Centurion for my legions!"

The (possibly adopted) son of Cable, Tyler Dayspring followed his father into the present day, wanting revenge for being abandoned to the chaos-bringer Stryfe. After suffering an identity crisis of sorts, Tyler reinvented himself as Genesis, the self-styled heir to Apocalypse. He fixated on Wolverine, seeking to make Logan his first horseman, but ended up biting off a bit more than he could chew.

See Cable: Enemies

Gorgon

Tomi Shishido / Gorgon

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Notable Aliases: The Spear in the East, Wolverine, Red Lord, Supreme Hydra

Nationality: Japanese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Wolverine (Vol. 3) #20 (December, 2005)

"I have died and been born again. There is nothing I fear. One day I will kill a god."

A mutant extremist who has held membership in both HYDRA and the Hand, Tomi Shishido is also the head of his own cult, known as the Dawn of the White Light. Possessed of a genius level intellect, and the power to turn others to stone with a glance, Shishido became a terroristic death cultist bent on hurting as many people as possible.

Always Someone Better: First thing we see him do is kill Wolverine, by virtue of simply being that fast, silent and deadly. He later fights and kills Elektra too, again through superior skill as much as his mutant abilities. Even when the pair of them (now resurrected) team up to take him down, he still beats the crap out of both of them as well as slaughter several S.H.I.E.L.D. agents they have backing them up. Wolverine only manages to kill him by turning his powers against him at the last moment, and if he hadn't done so the Gorgon would have turned him to stone and finished him off for good.
Back from the Dead: Killed by Wolverine, he was resurrected with magic by the Hand. It wasn't even the first time either.
Badass in a Nice Suit: While serving as bodyguard, he switched from his normal costume to a nice suit.
Blind Weaponmaster: Played with — he frequently fights blindfolded, but by choice rather than being actually blind. Naturally, this usually leads to I Am Not Left-Handed when someone manages to give him a good fight.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Did this to Wolverine.
Came Back Strong: Returned from the dead with Super-Strength, Super-Reflexes, and a stronger version of his Healing Factor.
Child Prodigy: Born with an Improbably High I.Q. that was apparently part-and-parcel of his mutant ability.
Combo Platter Powers: Not quite up to Superpower Lottery levels, but this guy certainly didn't get a bad hand. His mutant powers include:
- Healing Factor: Albeit a limited one, but even that's handy when you want to throw down with Wolverine.
- Taken for Granite: Of the classic Deadly Gaze variant. Turns people to stone with his stare, though gods and demigods are apparently immune to it.
- Telepathy: He uses this both to communicate with underlings and to anticipate an opponent's moves in combat.
Cool Shades: While serving as bodyguard, instead of his regular visor he wore a pair of shades.
Cool Sword: "Godkiller" a katana that has been used to slay numerous kings and emperors throughout history.
Costume Copycat: Took on the mantle of Wolverine in Norman Osborn's (short-lived) second iteration of Dark Avengers to annoy Logan.
Death Seeker: Aside from killing himself twice as an adult, he attempted a number of suicides as a boy. None ever stuck thanks to his Healing Factor.
Teen Gorgon: If you mean to kill me, know that I have tried several times myself. It is no easy thing.
Dressed to Kill: Initially introduced as the classic badass in a nice suit (see here◊), he later adopted a more ethnic garb reminiscent of Geese Howard.
Evil Counterpart: Serves as one for Cyclops in terms of being intelligent mutants with special eye powers that they keep in check by wearing sunglasses.
For the Evulz: Tends to come off as this in early appearances as a male version of Viper, what with associating himself with numerous terrorist groups that are often at odds with each other as much as they are everyone else.
Go Mad from the Revelation: As a child he used his Improbably High I.Q. to work out an equation proving the existence of God. This was apparently the source of all his future insanity, as everything he did after was ultimately revealed to be a long-running Rage Against the Heavens.
Has a Type: He Likes Older Women, even geriatric ones.
Heel–Face Turn: In X-Men (2019), he is among the hundreds of mutant villains who travel to Krakoa to accept the second chance and new mutant homeland offered by the X-Men. Wolverine even approaches him with a six-pack of beer to bury the hatchet, and while it's not shown whether or not he accepts the offer, later stories would indicate that he did.
Hero Killer: In his debut, no less, he kills Wolverine, following it up with Elektra. His Evil Plan sees his agents (including the now brainwashed zombie Wolverine) kill scores of other heroes so that they can be resurrected as Hand zombie slaves as well.
Katanas Are Just Better: He certainly thinks so.
Kill the God: Befitting his hatred of the very concept of Gods, Gorgon has sworn to kill one during his life and eventually succeeded when he managed to kill Phobos, the son of Ares, in single combat.
Master Swordsman: He was good enough as a teenager for the legendary Hydra leader Kraken to entrust him with Godkiller, and as an adult he's one of the most accomplished swordsmen in the Marvel Universe.
Noble Demon: He's a nihilistic terrorist, but he does have a minimal amount of honor, at least when it comes to a revered figure like Muramasa. When a rogue Hand lieutenant helped the Orphans of X lay siege to Muramasa's forge, Gorgon executed the dissident and then apologized to Muramasa and asked how he could atone for what happened.
Omnicidal Maniac: Eventually revealed to be his ultimate goal.
Path of Inspiration: He formed his own mutant cult, the Dawn of the White Light, at just 18 years old. Like most of his endeavors, it didn't really have much purpose beyond the spread of wanton chaos.
Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You: A decidedly non-romantic version of this trope: when charged to prove his loyalty by the Hand's grand master, Tomi told the man to kill him, knowing full well the Hand had the power to resurrect him. He then killed himself to drive the point home.
Rage Against the Heavens: Feeling that life is an unwanted curse no one ever asked for, Tomi sees human extinction as a noble pursuit, releasing mankind from God's slavery and making them "as free as they were before birth". Revealed in a conversation with Baron Strucker's widow:
Gorgon: You understand why we're building these weapons, don;t you? You appreciate that this bid to end all life is just a strike against the Light. Against God, I mean.
Elizabeth Strucker: We never asked to be born.
Gorgon: Exactly. I just worry sometimes that New HYDRA's actions are perceived as cruelty when my intentions are much more pure than those of your late husband.
Redemption Equals Death: After abandoning his old ways and joining Krakoa, he dies fighting on its behalf in X of Swords.
Sanity Slippage: In more recent appearances, as his multiple attempts and failures to bring about human extinction (or even end his own life) take their toll.
Self-Made Orphan: Petrified his whole family with his power.
Sinister Shades: Worn in order to avoid turning everybody to stone.
Terrorists Without a Cause: For a long time, the Gorgon's actual goals were a little nebulous given his association with multiple terrorist groups who all had opposing agendas. Eventually it was revealed that Tomi himself had a cause, even if his underlings didn't. Eventually subverted in Secret Warriors, in which his motives are finally revealed.
Too Dumb to Live: Killing the son of the God of War?! Yeah, there's no way that's not going to come back to bite him somewhere down the line.
Took a Level in Kindness: Krakoa did wonders for Gorgon's personality, something that is best shown in X of Swords, where he is revealed to have become friends with Magik, and even laughs at one of Wolverine's jokes.
Would Hurt a Child: He kills Phobos in Secret Warriors. Of course, his genocidal plans involve the death of every child on the planet already, so hardly a surprise. In his debut, he lured Wolverine to a trap in Japan by kidnapping a small boy whose parents Wolverine is friends with; he tells Wolverine that the boy was already murdered and Fed to Pigs.

Hunter in Darkness

AKA: He Who Stalks On Moonless Nights, The Lurker

Nationality: Canadian

Species: ???

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #34 (1990)

A mythical Canadian beast of the north country, somewhat similar to the Wendigo. Wolverine encountered this creature infrequently during the early '90s and it befriended the androids Albert and Elsie Dee.
The Hunter (renamed as 'The Lurker') makes an appearance as a Mini-Boss in the Sega Genesis version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.

Androcles' Lion: The Hunter remembers Wolverine's kindness and eventually repays him for it.
Captured Super-Entity: At one point the Hunter was captured by millionaire casino owner Ronald Parvenue and brought back to America to be ignobly showcased in said casino.
Combo Platter Powers: It has the bog-standard Wolverine combo: Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, Super-Senses, and Wolverine Claws.
Immune to Bullets: The Hunter has been shot up multiple times, but each time it limped away to lick its wounds and eventually returned, even after enduring perforatings that would have killed a lesser creature.
It Can Think: The Hunter doesn't have human-level sapience, but it is sentient enough to remember that Wolverine helped it out of a bear trap when it was young.
Last of His Kind: According to its Marvel handbook entry, the Hunter may in fact be the last of the Lupines (an ambiguous mutant subspecies which may or may not exist).
Non-Malicious Monster: Despite its name, the Hunter is no more malicious than any other wild animal. It's just much bigger and more dangerous than most wild animals.
Our Werewolves Are Different: It's not really clear exactly what the Hunter is. Dire Beast? Abnormally large albino werewolf? The last of the Lupines? Your guess is as good as anyone's.
Really 700 Years Old: Possibly, as its legend originates from a creature described "since distant times" by the Blackfoot tribe of Native Americans. The term they used for the creature is said to translate as "He Who Stalks on Moonless Nights".
Super-Persistent Predator: The Hunter kept coming after Wolverine for a little while there. Eventually it remembered why it recognized the Canucklehead's scent and defended him accordingly. And then the Hunter has a Super-Persistent Predator chasing after it in the form of Emmy Dolin, a Canadian woman who wanted revenge on the Hunter for killing her father.
Supernatural Elite: Whatever the Hunter is, it's elite enough to have become the subject of legends among the Blackfoot tribe.
White Wolves Are Special: Why exactly the Hunter is special is left ambiguous, but it does seem to be a unique creature of some kind.
Villainous Rescue: The Hunter saved Wolverine from Lady Deathstrike and Sabretooth once.

Iron Monk

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #108 (1996)

An assassin working for the Hand sent to assassinate Wolverine and Pale Flower.

One-Shot Character: Only appeared in one issue, was killed and has never reappeared.
Only Known by Their Nickname: He's only known as the Iron Monk.
Warrior Monk: You don't get the moniker of Iron Monk by being a pacifist.

Lady Deathstrike

Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike

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Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human cyborg

First Appearance: Daredevil Vol. 1, #197 (1983)

"I have been cheated of my birthright... my human essence and now... my just and long-awaited revenge — but I will not be cheated of my honor."

Lady Deathstrike has been adapted into numerous X-Men spinoffs, including X-Men: The Animated Series, Hulk vs. Wolverine, and X2: X-Men United. She has also appeared in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, X-Men Legends II, X-Men: Next Dimension, and the Sega Genesis version of Wolverine: Adamantium Rage.

Artistic License – Politics: Yuriko is supposed to be daimyo (feudal lord), but Japan doesn't have those anymore. The Oyamas might once have been daimyo, but not since the 1860s.^note This doesn't come up much these days.
Avenging the Villain: During X-Men: Messiah Complex, she pursues the X-Men to fulfill a blood oath she swore to the recently-deceased Reverend Stryker.
Ax-Crazy: Clearly not stable even before becoming a cyborg, but the transformation clearly pushed her off the deep end.
Blood Knight: In her Weapon X outings, she grows progressively tired of their do-gooding and wants to do some more mayhem. When she got access to Sabretooth's phone, she threw her name out as an available mercenary to the Foreigner.
Boxed Crook: During the events of Civil War (2006), she served as one of these, being one of Tony Stark's forcibly drafted recruits to the Thunderbolts.
Child of Two Worlds: She occupies a very strange place in the X-Men universe that not too many other characters occupy, being a baseline human turned into a cyborg but also having strong ties to the mutant community through her complex relationship with Wolverine (in some adaptations, she is even made a mutant for the sake of Compressed Adaptation). Accordingly, she's fought on both sides, swinging from an enforcer of the rabidly anti-mutant Purifiers to being a member of the Red Queen's Sisterhood of Mutants. As of 2018, she's shed her racist connections (for now) and is assassinating the enemies of mutantkind she once consorted with.
Curb-Stomp Battle: On the losing end of one with X-23 during X-Men: Messiah Complex.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: She wasn't thinking too clearly to begin with, admittedly, but becoming a cyborg seems to have truly pushed her into madness and evil.
Cyborg: Elongated fingers with razor-sharp tips/nails are her main cybernetic feature, but she is also depicted with other cyber-implants that serve no recognizable purpose. Justified in that she was roboticized by Spiral, who (A) is not schooled in any scientific disciplines, (B) runs the Body Shoppe, and (C) is insane.
Dark Action Girl: Capable of fighting Wolverine one on one and has some Empowered Badass Normal elements, as she is one of the few members of Wolverine's rogues gallery to have been born a baseline human without any mutant abilities.
The Dragon: To Donald Pierce in the comics.
Dragon Lady: A pretty archetypal example.
Even Evil Has Standards: During her time in the Reavers she had to endure a Villainous Crush from nominal leader Donald Pierce, who was too much of a Smug Snake for even her tastes.
Evil Counterpart: Built up as such for Wolverine in many continuities.
Fair-Play Villain: Given a chance to shoot Wolverine dead from a distance, she smirked and let him go.
Fantastic Racism: A strange example. While Yuriko actually being a racist herself is debatable, she very clearly works with a ton of hardcore anti-mutant racists, from Donald Pierce and the Reavers to Reverend Stryker and his Purifiers.
Feel No Pain: In recent years she's gained this thanks to sacrificing more and more of her humanity. Unfortunately for her, she can still imagine the sensation of pain, which becomes a problem when Wolverine exploits her crippling fear of fire. Read below for more on that.
Femme Fatalons/Wolverine Claws: Combines the two, in the form of super-sized hands with exaggeratedly long, clawed fingers.
Healing Factor: Deathstrike's cybernetic upgrades include a self-repair function that fixes damage to both her human and mechanical parts. It's so good that she can quickly recover from getting disemboweled and having her heart removed by mad scientists.
Heel–Face Turn: She has very occasionally pulled brief moments of these, such as the time she helped the X-Men in a 2001 annual. None of them ever stick. Currently in 2018, she's a member of Weapon X and is going around killing people who plan the genocide of mutants.
Hero Killer: A notable Aborted Arc by Chris Claremont planned to have her kill none other than Wolverine himself by ripping out his heart.
Lady of War: When she cares to Yuriko can pull this off, given her inhuman grace and upper-class upbringing.
Morality Pet: Weirdly enough, the Reavers. She initially hires them as muscle, but they soon develop a strange camraderie of sorts, to the point that Deathstrike genuinely grieves when she thinks they've been killed by the Spirit-Drinker.
Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Deathstrike" is not a name that should inspire confidence in anybody.
Pet the Dog: Left Wolverine alone when Magneto pulled the adamantium out of his body, abandoning her and Bloodscream's plan to avenge themselves upon him.
Progressively Prettier: When she first started out, she had a mutilated face, then she became a cyborg that looked like a Mad Max-reject that wore a lot of brown and had a cheap red wig. She eventually started going for a Dragon Lady look and is currently fielding an Emma Peel styling.
Psycho for Hire: She degraded into one of these after the Reavers were forcibly disbanded in the 90s. Though the rest of the team eventually got back together under Donald Pierce's leadership, Deathstrike chose not to return.
Revenge Before Reason: Chases after Wolverine long after a sane person would have cut their losses and gone home.
Super-Reflexes: Deathstrike's cyborg enhancements grant her inhuman reaction time.
Super-Strength: Low level, but present. She can lift about a tonne.
Technopath: Can interface with most computer systems.
Unbreakable Bones: Has an adamantium laced skeleton.
Villain Team-Up: She often works for/with anti-mutant groups such as the Purifiers.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Because Deathstrike was badly burned once while part of her was still human, she's deathly afraid of fire. It's bad enough that even though she's almost completely machine now and possesses no ability to feel pain, she still freaks out and screams like she is burning when Wolverine had to resort to setting her on fire once to beat her.
Wolverine Wannabe: She has long, sharp claws, an adamantium skeleton, a Healing Factor and a penchant violence. Before the debut of X-23, she was the closest thing Logan had to a Distaff Counterpart.
Woman Scorned: Consistently has this attitude towards Wolverine, though whether or not it's warranted varies from adaptation to adaptation.
The Worf Effect: Subjected to this during X-Men: Messiah Complex in the name of building up X-23.
Would Hurt a Child: Considered killing Jubilee along with Wolverine and very nearly killed Hellion before X-23 gave her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown.
Yellow Peril: As an archetypal Dragon Lady driven by revenge and dressed in archaic Japanese fashions, she's far from free of these connotations.

Nuke

Frank Charles Simpson / Nuke

Nationality: American

Species: Human cyborg

First Appearance: Daredevil #232 (1986)

A former sergeant in the US Army, Frank Simpson lost what was left of his sanity (already fractured by a traumatic childhood) when he was captured in Vietnam and tortured by a Russian intelligence liaison. After the war, Frank was inducted into the Weapon VII program, meant as an attempt to create a new Captain America. The program enhanced his physiology by grafting a bulletproof sub-dermal mesh into his skin and giving him a secondary heart that, working in conjunction with some Adrenaline Pills, controlled his aggression, giving him an addiction that would (in theory) make him an effective puppet for his handlers. He eventually became too violent to control, and struck out on his own as a mercenary and terrorist, intent on destroying anyone he perceives to be "enemies of America."

See Daredevil Central Rogues Gallery

Ogun

Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1 (1984)

A long-lived ninja sorcerer, quite possibly a mutant, and Wolverine's one-time mentor. As well as being a supremely skilled swordsman and martial artist, he has various mental abilities, enabling him to imprint his consciousness upon others, influencing their actions or outright sublimating their will to his own.

The Corrupter: His stock in trade, most famously displayed in his debut appearance, with Logan's sidekick Kitty.
Evil Mentor: Was this and very nearly a father figure to Logan nearly a hundred years ago.
Katanas Are Just Better: Uses traditional samurai swords in his human incarnation(s).
Master Swordsman: Supremely skilled with Japanese (and possibly other) blades.
Really 700 Years Old: As old as Wolverine (if not older), his mutant (sorcery) powers slow his aging considerably.

Omega Red

Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich / Omega Red

Nationality: Russian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men Vol. 2, #4 (1992)

"Who has brought me back from the dark domain of death? Who has summoned Omega Red?"

An attempt by the Soviet Union to create a Super-Soldier, Omega Red was designed as a counterpart to the American/Canadian "Weapon X" project, using the Soviet knock-off of Adamantium, known as Carbonadium. In a typical display of Soviet brilliance, they decided to use a regenerating mutant as the basis for their soldier, as was the case with Wolverine — but the only candidate who fit the bill was Arkady Gregorivich, a serial killer. Since his resurrection Omega Red has firmly established himself as one of the most brutal and murderous villains that Wolverine has ever run across.

Ax-Crazy: He is practically an icon of bloodlust and doesn't even bother putting on a nice face about it.
Because You Were Nice to Me: It is implied that, beneath his psychopathy, Omega Red longs for companionship and belonging, which is why all it took was people (like Sabretooth and Sage) being genuinely nice to him to get him to stop being bad and join teams like Weapon X and X-Force.
Blood Knight: Had elements of this from the very start, even back when he had a tangible goal driving his villainy.
Boom, Headshot!: Received one from his fellow soldiers when they found out about how he had been dealing with his boredom. It's also what caused the initial manifestation of his abilities.
Captain Ersatz: Though it's less noticeable then with characters like Wolverine (who had a half a dozen ersatz versions of him in the '90s), after Omega Red showed up there were quite a few villains whose origins were "psychotic Soviet ex-KGB cyborg killer". Then again, Omega Red himself was just riding the wave of "ex-Soviet killers" that had been showing up in the media thanks to the aftermath of Soviet collapse.
Color Character: Omega Red.
Combat Tentacles: Can use his tentacles to bludgeon and grapple and to release his "death spore" virus.
Combo Platter Powers: He's got a healing factor, super strength, the ability to drain his victim's life energy, and carbonadium tentacles.
Cybernetics Eat Your Soul: Not that he ever really had a soul to begin with.
Dirty Communists: Omega Red was made as a Soviet super-soldier before turning into a Terrorist Without a Cause.
The Don: One story arc had him becoming basically the Russian equivalent of the Kingpin.
The Dragon: To Matsu'o Tsurayaba of the Hand. That didn't last long, though.
Enemy to All Living Things: The death spores he exudes are toxic to all life, and he has to channel them through his carbonadium whips lest they turn on him.
Evil Counterpart: Designed by the Soviet Union's equivalent of the Weapon X project, Omega Red is essentially a Russian Sabretooth, and another in a long line of Wolverine's evil counterparts.
Evil Is Not a Toy: He was revived by the Neo-Nazi twins Andrea and Andreas Von Strucker, who intended to use him to score points in the Upstarts competition. He quickly proved too much for them to control, though, and struck out on his own not too long after. This origin is twisted around a bit in X-Men '92, in which Omega Red is already active in the present day and the Fenris twins activate his Super Prototype Alpha Red instead.
Former Regime Personnel: Got his start as a horrifyingly psychopathic Soviet super-soldier. The end of the Cold War left him without a steady job and unleashed him on the rest of the world.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He was just a low-ranking Russian soldier who also happened to be a Serial Killer in his spare time before the Soviet brass noticed him and decided to make him something... more.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: When Omega Red called his brother out on convincing their parents to turn him into the KGB instead of trying to actually help him, the brother gave the not totally unreasonable response of, "What were we supposed to do? We were simple peasants. Not psychologists."
Healing Factor: His baseline mutant ability, apparently. It was strong enough to allow him to survive a point-blank headshot, and later survive the super soldier process.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: He comes off as almost pitiful in Weapon X (2017), and joins the team after Sabretooth saves his life, treats him with kindness, and helps him deal with his brother, an anti-mutant General Ripper who had injected Omega Red with nanites that acted as an Explosive Leash. He even gets a Morality Pet in the form of an orphaned tiger cub that he names "Kotik."
Sabretooth: I told you I'd give you a chance. That's the law of my jungle. We're gonna find my team, fix your nanobot situation... and treat you like a person for once.
- Unfortunately, he then got mind-controlled by X-Man, died, came back, got blackmailed and enthralled by Dracula, and was then killed (again) and resurrected as a "sleepwalking agent" by Krakoa; the Five objected to that last part, feeling that it was inhumane and that they should try to help Omega Red instead using him as a weapon like others have almost his entire life, but their suggestions were flatly turned down by Beast and Professor X. While Omega Red does end up turning on the Vampire Nation in favor of Krakoa, once Mikhail Rasputin reveals that the Krakoans have been secretly tampering with his mind and refusing to fix his debilitating afflictions, he betrays them in favor of Russia. Despite this, after Wolverine kills Omega Red, Sage convinces the Quiet Council to give Omega Red another chance, pointing out that Omega Red was earnest in helping the Krakoans against the Vampire Nation and that the only reason why he betrayed them is because they treated him like an automaton rather than a person, so they bring him back again and have him rejoin X-Force. The constant flip-flopping is lampshaded by Kid Omega, who, when Omega Red tried to stop him from messing with Deadpool, sarcastically asked if Omega Red was "redeemable now."
Horror Hunger: He used to have to devour life force energy to stave off the poisonous effects of his carbonadium implants. Given who he is, it was never something he really objected to even when he had to do it.
I Shall Taunt You: Frequently combos this with hearty helpings of Evil Is Hammy.
In the Blood: His brother was a government stooge and all-around piece of crap who had mutants placed in deplorable gulags and demonized, not out of simple bigotry potentially brought on by his mutant brother's reputation, but just to distract the Russian people from the failings of their government by making them hate and blame all of their problems on mutants instead.
Joker Immunity: Ultimately averted at the Turn of the Millennium, but throughout the nineties this guy was basically unstoppable. At one point the heroes lured him into a pit built specifically to hold rogue Weapon X agents, then hightailed it out of there and blew the base to kingdom come with a missile strike. And at the end Omega Red still clawed his way up out of the rubble.
Legacy Character: After the original was Killed Off for Real, White Sky Institute created the Omega Clan, three people with powers based off of Red's, one of them even named Omega Red.
MacGuffin: The Carbonadium Synthesizer, an object in his backstory which he was usually on the prowl for. It was supposed to stabilize his death factor, but Wolverine squirreled it away somewhere. Beating the location of it out of Logan was his main motivation early on, before the usual For the Evulz set in.
The Mafiya: Implied to have been a member prior to becoming Omega Red, and later becomes a crime lord in his own right.
Mother Russia Makes You Strong: Literally so in his case.
Pheromones: Omega Red can produce lethal pheromones that weaken or kill everyone else in the vicinity.
Poisonous Person: Not naturally, but after being made into a Super-Soldier he became one.
Power Incontinence: Omega Red suffers from this as he had to drain people's life energy to survive and temporarily had to release the death spores his body built up or they would kill him. Even after he found a cure that allowed him to survive without other people's life, he stole it anyway and would probably do the same with his death spores.
Psycho for Hire: To the point where even hiring him is dangerous. The Hand found that out the hard way.
Redemption Equals Death: He became an Anti-Hero (or an Anti-Villain, at least) in Weapon X (2017). He was then brainwashed and, like all other mutants, mind-whammied by X-Man before being killed by Genesis.
Red Is Violent: He's am unhinged psychopath who wears red.
Renegade Russian: Became one of these with the fall of Soviet Russia. Without the KGB to control him, nothing was left to stop him from becoming a Psycho for Hire.
Sealed Evil in a Can: In his original backstory the Soviets sealed him away after he proved too difficult to control. Later this backstory was transferred to Alpha Red.
Serial Killer: Shown to have been one well before joining the Red Army.
Shoddy Knockoff Product: Carbonadium is this, being specifically mentioned to be cheaper and less durable than adamantium but more malleable.
Sociopathic Soldier: He carried over his Serial Killer hobby when he joined the Spetsnaz and kept right on killing until he finally got sent to a base so small the disappearances were noticed. This resulted in his fellow soldiers attempting to blow his head off, but thanks to his mutation, it didn't take.
Super-Soldier: Because there is no way turning a seven-foot-tall mutant serial killer into a cyborg with KGB-training could ever backfire, right?
Tentacle Rope: His favorite method of fighting his opponents before draining their life energy.
Walking Wasteland: Omega Red has the ability to produce a "Death Spore Pheromone" that physically weakened anyone exposed to it, to the point that it could kill someone who was exposed to it long enough.
White and Red and Eerie All Over: One of the first Marvel villains to utilize this color combination, and it's fair to say that the jarring contrast of his albino white skin and primarily blood-red uniform is a big part of what made him memorable as '90s villains go.
Wolverine Publicity: One of the more popular X-villains introduced in the '90s, so much so that he earned a handful of appearances in X-Men: The Animated Series and a recurring spot in the Marvel vs. Capcom series. He was also a boss in both X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse and the first X-Men game for the Sega Game Gear.
The Worf Effect: Iron Man delivered a fairly severe one in the '90s, since the telepresence unit suit that Stark was wearing at the time was utterly immune to his power set.

Persephone

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends (2018)

A mysterious figure introduced to be behind the disappearance of Wolverine's corpse from his grave and his apparent resurrection. Runs an organization known as Soteira which has a global amount of influence and resources. It is eventually revealed that she is a mutant capable of reanimating the dead under her control.

Animate Dead: Her mutant power is the ability to reanimate the dead as extensions of her will.
Dirty Coward: She never meets with Logan directly, choosing to either talk to him through one of her reanimated minions or via holographic projection.
Evil Plan: Use a network of satellites to covertly kill the world's population and project her enhanced powers to reanimate the entire world under her control.
Freudian Excuse: She grew up "surrounded by death". That, coupled with her mutant ability to bring the dead back to life, means that life and death mean nothing to her.
Hypocrite: Despite claiming that people are "mysteries" to her, she wholeheartedly belives that humanity is "living in hell" and need to be killed and revived so they can actually accomplish something.
Meaningful Name: She took the name "Persephone" due to it being the name of the Greek goddess of both death and Spring/renewal, which fit perfectly with her Evil Plan.
Misanthrope Supreme: She believes that people are "born dead" and spend their lives achieving nothing of significance and dreaming hopeless dreams, which is why she thinks they're better off as her reanimated minions.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The titular event of Return of Wolverine is due to her reanimating Logan's body, which allowed for his healing factor to kick back in, bringing him back to true life.
Remote Body: One can never be sure if they're confronting her directly. Hell, one can't be sure anyone you're interacting with isn't just a corpse under her control.
Sparing the Aces: Her plan involved recruiting several people she believed had actually contributed to the world (such as scientists, artists, chefs, etc), who she referred to as "the Brilliant Ones" and employing them to help her remake the world after killing everyone.

Romulus

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 3, #50 (2007)

"There's a reason why you've spent your life watching the sheep, Wolverine — and it's not because you're a shepherd. It's because you're a wolf."

The leader of the Lupines, Romulus claims to have lived since the days of the Roman Empire. He is revealed to have been one of the primary backers of the Weapon X project and was the one who hired Cyber to raise Daken, all as part of a plan to manipulate Wolverine. Even after his sister Remus debunked much of his story, his exact motivations still remain a mystery.

Animal-Themed Superbeing: With wolves as the animal in question.
Been There, Shaped History: According to him, anyway. Supposedly he and his sister are the mythical Romulus and Remus who legend says founded Ancient Rome.
Big Bad: Of most arcs in which he appears.
Cain and Abel: With his sister, Remus.
The Chessmaster: He claims to have been manipulating Logan, Sabretooth, and the other "Lupines" for generations. Why he's done everything he's done has not really been revealed, and his claims are, at best, extremely questionable either way.
Consummate Liar: It's unknown just how many grains of actual truth are hidden beneath all the bald-faced lies and extremely creative renditions of the truth, but it is safe to say that all of his wildest and most fantastic claims are complete bullshit, and even his more plausible ones are of extremely questionable veracity. While a few things are probably true (he's definitely been around for a while, he's clearly powerful and has likely held a few leadership positions in his time, he may have pulled strings at various points), he's nonetheless an inveterate liar and serial exaggerator at the end of the day.
Continuity Snarl: A mild version of this, as his claims that Wolverine and his various feral allies and villains are all part of a mutant sub-species was a major Retcon that was quietly itself retconned after proving unpopular with readers. Conventional wisdom as of 2015 is that he was talking out of his posterior for reasons unknown.
The Corrupter: Seems to have elements of this, as he follows Sabretooth's footsteps in encouraging Logan to give in to his wild side.
Evil Counterpart: A long lived mutant with a Healing Factor, heightened senses, and as of his return from the Dark Dimension, an adamantium skeleton. Yet another in the long line of evil Wolverines that Logan has faced.
Evil Old Folks: Has the white hair of his claimed age, though his Healing Factor makes judging his actual age a daunting task. It doesn't help that he's an inveterate liar who also happens to be long-lived by his very nature.
Evilutionary Biologist: Romulus has been meddling with Logan's and Victor's bloodlines for generations and is the true mastermind behind the Weapon X project.
Healing Factor: Like many, many villains of Wolverine before him (and likely after him) Romulus sports a robust one of these.
Hidden Agenda Villain: Romulus has spent a lot of time manipulating Wolverine and orchestrating the events of his life, but the actual reasons are not clear.
The Man Behind the Man: Claims to be this to Weapon X, Cyber, Omega Red, Daken, and even Sabretooth.
Multiple-Choice Past: Is he really an ancient mutant who founded the city of Rome, or is he just a deluded nobody who fabricated a grand backstory for himself? General consensus seems to be that he's been around for a while and has done a few things in his time but is also an incorrigible bullshitter.
Really 700 Years Old: Claims to have been the source behind the Romulus legend, which would put him at roughly 2700 years old if true, give or take a few decades. Of course, Romulus isn't exactly a reliable source of information. He's definitely older than Logan and Creed, but not that old.
Unbreakable Bones: After having adamantium added to his skeleton.
Unreliable Expositor: Romulus claims that he, Logan, Daken, X-23 (by extension), Sabertooth, Sasquatch, Wolfsbane, Feral, Thornn, Wild Child, and a few other mutants are members of the Lupine, a subspecies of mutant descended from canines rather than primates. His sister Remus revealed he made it up. (Which, considering Sasquatch's confirmed mystic origins, should have been obvious from the get-go.)
Walking Shirtless Scene: See his profile image above.
White Hair, Black Heart: He follows in the footsteps blazed by Reverend Stryker and Bastion of evil old men with white hair.
Wolverine Claws: Originally wore a gauntlet that mimicked Wolverine's claws. He has since had four claws implanted in his wrists. He also has natural retractable claws like Sabretooth's on the ends of his fingers.

Roughouse

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #4 (1989)

His exact origins are disputed: he may simply be a mutant, or possibly descended from one of the superhuman races of extradimensional Asgard, either a god, giant or troll. What is known is that he is superhumanly strong and durable, and usually works as hired muscle for criminal organizations.

Abusive Parents: He was regularly beaten by his father as a child, leaving him with scars that he hides under his beard and long hair.
Even Evil Has Standards: In All-New Wolverine, he was tasked with returning a group of intended child slaves to safety. When one of the pirates who was transporting the children tries to cut a deal with him, he adamantly refuses, and throws the pirate off the boat for good measure.
Roughouse: I've done some horrible things in my time... [pauses to throw the pirate off the ship] ...But being asked to protect kids from slavers isn't one of 'em.
Super-Strength: Estimated to be in the Class 50 (ton) range.
Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Due to his own upbringing, Roughouse could never bring himself to harm children. When Gabby pulls a Deliberate Injury Gambit, he is horrified, and personally takes her to an infirmary.

Sabretooth

Victor Creed / Sabretooth

First Appearance: Iron Fist Vol. 1, #14 (1977)

"Not here to kill you. Far as I'm concerned, you can stay just like this. But I'm gonna make you a promise. You ever find anything — anybody — to make life worth living again — I'll be there."

Sabretooth is the anti-mutant case in human form. He is a sadistic, unrepentant, bestial mass-murderer with superpowers and is proud of that fact, believing both Humans and Mutants are Bastards and that he is just the only one honest enough to recognize it, and embrace the monster within. This plays directly into his relationship with Wolverine, his Arch-Enemy and Shadow Archetype with nearly identical powers, with whom he shares a long and complicated past Shrouded in Myth, with neither of them really sure how they first knew each other or why Victor feels such a grudge against him.

What is consistent, though, is that Creed is obsessed with Logan and will give him frequent demoralizing speeches about how he should turn to the Dark Side and become an animal like him, whilst simultaneously hell-bent on proving that he is Logan's Always Someone Better despite — or probably because of — the evidence suggesting that it's really the other way round, as Wolverine consistently gets the better of him, though Sabretooth often leaves scars whenever that happens and tends to win by a landslide when he does get the better of him.

As with Mystique, Sabretooth is likely to end up as The Dragon to Magneto in various adaptations, despite the mainstream comic book versions having very little interaction and Sabretooth being the kind of monster who undermines Magneto's entire pro-mutant agenda. However, those adaptations usually make their working relationship rather short-lived, and sometimes he only joins him to get a chance to fight Wolverine.

See Marvel Comics: Sabretooth

Silver Samurai

Kenuichio Harada / Silver Samurai

Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Daredevil Vol 1., #111 (1974)

"You will not find me lacking in courage, gaijin."

A Japanese mutant born to a Yakuza clan who has the power to envelop any blade he is carrying with a forcefield that lets it cut through pretty much anything. The son of Shingen Yashida and half-brother of Wolverine's one-time fiancée Mariko Yashida, he clashed with Logan numerous times when he tried to take control of the Yashida clan from Mariko. Clad is samurai armor and armed with his energy blade, he was a deadly adversary.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: His mutant power gives his blade this kind of edge. During one of their battles, Wolverine voices concerns that Harada might even be able to cut through his adamantium.
Alliterative Name: Silver Samurai.
Armor Is Useless: Averted. Harada's armour may not be made of adamantium, and is far from indestructible, but it's thick enough and tough enough to give Wolverine some trouble, allowing Harada to stay in the fight.
As Long as It Sounds Foreign: His given name is made up, as anyone who knows actual Japanese naming conventions can tell. His name in Japanese translations is Kenichiro.
Bastard Bastard: Shingen's illegitimate son, and a deadly threat to his half-sister.
Big Bad Wannabe: Constantly scheming to seize control of his clan, yet never managed to hang onto it for long when he did due to his poor leadership skills.
Cain and Abel: With Mariko, at least initially.
Captain Ethnic: A Japanese villain with Yakuza ties, an obsession with honor, and a samurai theme. To his credit, he was better developed than many similar characters, even in his early appearances.
Chest Insignia: Wears the Imperial Japanese flag on the chest of his armor.
Color Character: The Silver Samurai.
Elemental Weapon: Not in the comics, but in his video game appearance he could channel the token elements of Fire, Ice, Lightning through his sword (though only in various hyper moves).
Fights Like a Normal: Harada's powers turn his sword into a light-sabre, but that's all they do, which means that he has to otherwise fight like an ordinary man. Given his samurai training and mastery of swordsmanship, that's not especially difficult for him.
Heel–Face Revolving Door: Harada keeps switching between heroics and villainy, between being a friend of Wolverine's and being his enemy.
Heel–Face Turn: Combined with Death Is Cheap, as he is resurrected in the pages of X-Men (2019) and offered a home in the new mutant nation of Krakoa, which he accepts. Currently Harada serves as a combat instructor and supervisor of the Quarry, where Krakoan citizens that don't have Danger Room access hone their skills.
Heroic Sacrifice/Redemption Equals Death: Died combating the Red Right Hand.
Katanas Are Just Better: Naturally, the Silver Samurai prefers a katana sword over any other weapon, and his mutant powers enhance their deadliness to let him pull this off in-universe.
Lightning Bruiser: An enormous man, at least by Japanese standards, Harada is nevertheless nearly as fast Yukio, though he lacks her agility.
The Magic Touch: His powers are conveyed by touch.
Master Swordsman: Until Gorgon came along, Silver Samurai was one of the most fearsome swordsmen in the Marvel U.
No One Could Survive That!: Was at ground zero when Storm unleashed her first ever localized hurricane, taking multiple lightning bolts, and then nearly drowning. He himself notes that he has absolutely no idea how he lived through that and cites his survival as a miracle.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Racist and condescending towards non-Japanese.
Rogues' Gallery Transplant: Was originally a Daredevil villain.
Samurai: Dresses as a samurai, though his armor is forged of modern materials.
Smoke Out: One of his moves in X-Men: Children of the Atom was this, a stationary teleport mostly useful for avoiding projectiles. It was removed from his repertoire for his appearance in Marvel vs. Capcom 2.
Unholy Matrimony: With Viper, for a little while. It appears to have been mutual, though it did not last long beyond that story arc.
Villain Decay: He was never as deadly a foe as he was in his first appearance.
Villain Team-Up: His first major story arc saw him in alliance with Viper.
Worthy Opponent: Wolverine trusts him enough to ask him to care for his daughter Amiko.
Yakuza: Has some dealing with them.

Shingen Yoshida

Shingen Yoshida / Shingen Harada

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Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 1, #1

Father of Mariko Yashida and Kenuichio Harada, Shingen was a ruthless yakuza boss whom Wolverine encountered in Japan. A formidable fighter despite his age, Shingen gave Wolverine one of the worst fights of his life, leaving him hospitalized for months.

Awesomeness by Analysis: Was able to use his knowledge of human anatomy to completely disable Wolverine in their first duel and severely wound him in their second.
Badass Normal: No powers. Cut Wolverine to pieces despite that.
Bald of Evil: A bad Asian Old Master, so that's almost a given.
Duel to the Death: Engaged Wolverine in one, resulting in his own demise.
Evil Old Folks: Not that it slowed him down that much.
Master Swordsman: Which is what made him such a threat.
Old Master: Clearly meant to evoke this by his dress.
Yakuza: A boss of it.
Yellow Peril: As in the case of Lady Deathstrike, these connotations were pretty much unavoidable.

Thomas Logan

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human

First Appearance: Origin Vol. 1, #1

The father of James Howlett and Dog Logan. A servant on the Howlett estate.

Abusive Parents: He frequently beat his son Dog for spending time with the upper class, mainly James and Rose, and he tried to kill his son.
Ax-Crazy: Thanks to a Hair-Trigger Temper.
Beard of Evil: Though a bit overshadowed by the Evil Sideburns.
Jerkass: Probably the nicest possible description of him.
The Resenter: Towards the Howletts.
Strong Family Resemblance: Looks nigh identical to Wolverine.
Two First Names: Logan is a common given name.
You're Not My Father: In spite of being his biological father, James refuses to consider him his father, considering John Howlett to be his real dad and condemning Thomas for killing him.

Viper

Ophelia Sarkissian / Viper

First Appearance: Captain America Vol. 1, #110 (1969)

One of the leading figures in the terrorist organization HYDRA and a notorious international terrorist, Madame Hydra, alias Viper, is an Ax-Crazy psychopath and a nihilistic lunatic who frequently engages in attempted mass murder schemes that have no obvious benefit. She is associated with the Serpent Squad.

See Hydra

Sabretooth Army

In General

Sabretooth Army

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A multiversal army of Sabretooth variants.

Alliance of Alternates: Four (later five) Sabretooths banded together after Graydon Creed gathered them to kill them. They also have headless undead Sabretooth variants that serve as mooks.

Cap

Victor Creed

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Nationality: Unkown

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Sabretooth Exiles #5 (March, 2023)

A version of Sabretooth from Earth-203 who appears to be his world’s Captain America.

Sociopathic Soldier: Despite donning Captain America’s uniform, he’s still as vicious as most other Sabretooths and is thus known as the “Sentinel of Tyranny”.

Savage

Creed

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Nationality: Unkown

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Sabretooth Exiles #5 (March, 2023)

A gender flipped Sabretooth from Earth-1912.

Gender Flip: This alternate of Sabretooth is a woman.
Nubile Savage: An attractive but dangerous woman dressed as a cavewoman.

Pretty Boy

Victor Creed

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Nationality: Unkown

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Sabretooth Exiles #5 (March, 2023)

A celebrity version of Sabretooth from Earth-12.

Pragmatic Villainy: He preferred just killing Wolverine over Sabretooth-616's plan to keep Logan alive while killing all of Logan's loved ones and the mutant refugees he was protecting, as he found that to be overkill.
Off with His Head!: He’s decapitated by Laura.

Camo

Victor Creed

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Nationality: Unkown

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Wolverine #41 (January, 2024)

A feathered version of Sabretooth from Earth-33441.

Feathered Fiend: He’s covered in feathers instead of hair and is just as vicious and sadistic as his allies.
Sixth Ranger: He joined the group after its formation but before the Sabretooth War.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: His feathers can “camouflage” him to look like whatever he wants to look like.

Laura's Rogues Gallery

The Facility

An American civilian offshoot of the Weapon Plus program which experimented on Wolverine, Deadpool, Sabretooth, and numerous others. The Facility managed to obtain genetic samples salvaged by Weapon Plus scientist Dale Rice during Logan's rampage, which were used to create X-23 during their attempts at replicating Weapon X years later. They have made several efforts since to recapture her.

Administration

Dr. Martin Sutter

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Nationality: American

Species: Human

First appearance: X-23 #1 (January, 2005)

Director of the Facility when Laura was created, he hired Sarah Kinney upon learning of her proposal to clone Wolverine. While he didn't have a direct hand in the abuse heaped upon her, Sutter nonetheless gave Rice tremendous leeway in handling the project, and created the environment which allowed him to torment her. Sutter was close friends with Weapon X scientist Dale Rice, and when Rice was killed by Wolverine during his escape from the installation where he was experimented on, Sutter practically raised his young son Zander. His blind faith and trust in Zander Rice cost him his life, as Rice would later manipulate him into turning over control of the project before sending X-23 to kill him.

Asshole Victim: Although Martin Sutter didn't take a direct hand in X-23 brutal upbringing that Rice did, he fostered the environment which enabled him to do so. Sutter summarily rejected every suggestion or warning Sarah Kinney made, and his entire motivation for the project was sheer greed. He never once had misgivings about what he and Rice were doing, and it's hard to feel a shred of sympathy for him when Rice manipulates him into turning over full control to him, and then sends X-23 to kill him.
Beard of Evil: Sports a goatee, which becomes more sinister as his crueler intentions are exposed.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Sarah is interested in the project for the challenge, and because she believes they are working for the greater good of national defense. It's unclear whether or not Sutter began this way as well, but by the end, it's clearly revealed that the only thing he really sees are dollar signs.
Happily Married: Sutter has a good relationship with his wife Rachel, and son Henry. Or at least, so he thinks.
Obstructive Bureaucrat: Sutter ignores Sarah's warnings that Rice has become too personally invested in the project when she realizes the amount of abuse Rice is inflicting on X-23, instead accusing her of being too attached. Earlier, when Sarah tries to tell Sutter that tissue damage to the samples makes her theory of doubling the X chromosome a more viable alternative, he rejects the proposal and orders her to proceed according to the original plan. When she disobeys and creates the female clone anyway, he only acquiesces when she flat-out tells him he can either have the viable female clone right now, or wait for years until they could maybe create a viable male clone, essentially forcing his hand.
Parental Substitute: Sutter is this for Rice, after Wolverine kills Dale Rice escaping Weapon X
Reasonable Authority Figure: Sutter starts off as this, showing great interest in Sarah's proposal to clone Weapon X. However he becomes increasingly obstructive as the series continues. Not helped at all by the fact that he's blindly supportive of Rice and completely ignores Sarah's warnings about him.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: When Sutter begins showing signs of exhaustion over managing the project, Rice manipulates him into turning over control of the project, and then sends X-23 to kill him.

Zander Rice

Dr. Zander Rice

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Nationality: American

Species: Human

First appearance: X-23 #1 (January, 2005)

Surgical head of the X-23 project, Rice's father, Dale, was attached to the original Weapon X experiment that bonded adamantium to Wolverine's skeleton. Dale was killed attempting to escape the installation with genetic material during Logan's rampage, leaving Zander to be practically raised by his father's close friend, Martin Sutter. Rice grew up harboring a deep resentment for Wolverine, and this brought him into conflict with Sarah Kinney after her proposal to clone the mutant who killed his father. He became one of Laura's chief tormentors at the Facility after her birth, and subjected her to much of the abuse and torture she experienced.

Abusive Parents: Although not X-23's father, as the senior scientist working on the project he effectively serves as such, and inflicts most of the physical abuse X-23 receives in the book.
Asshole Victim: When X-23 kills Zander Rice, she puts away the claws and beats him for ten minutes in a truly brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown. Rice tortured and both physically and emotionally abused Laura all her life to that point,^note so it makes the scene far more satisfying to read than watching someone get pounded into an unrecognizable pulp would normally be.
Ax-Crazy: Although he has an almost unflappable demeanour, his reaction to even his most atrocious acts and the amount of fun he's having in torturing X-23 subtly shows that he's.....not well.
Big Bad: While Sutter is certainly a Corrupt Corporate Executive and Obstructive Bureaucrat, it's ultimately Rice who's the real villain of the story.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: A Deconstruction as this is a rare instance of this being a negative trait, as his obsession with his father's death has turned him into an insane misanthrope who believes that the tragedy justifies all of his actions, regardless of how heinous. Averted with his adoptive father Martin Sutter and son Henry Sutter. Despite Martin Sutter raising him after his father's death, and Henry Sutter being his son through an affair with Rachel Sutter, he doesn't hesitate to have X-23 to kill them for his own purposes (gaining total control of the project, and covering up his affari). And of course there's the fact that Zander was sleeping with his adoptive father's wife to begin with.
Evil Is Petty: Good God, if he’s not torturing X-23 in place of her genetic father, then he’s doing all sorts of spiteful shit to her and others just to be a childish dickhead.
Freudian Excuse: Rice blames Wolverine for his father's death (not without reason, considering Wolverine gutted him). So because X-23 was created with Wolverine's DNA, he holds her responsible as well.
Jerkass: Even before he takes a flying leap off the slippery slope, Rice was a dick who showed no regard for the mutants he was experimenting on, and was openly antagonistic towards and disparaging of Sarah. He was also screwing around with Sutter's wife, Rachel, and fathered her son Henry. Remember, Sutter practically raised Rice after his father was killed by Wolverine. When his true nature and depths of his depravity are revealed, then this trope is him at his most nice.
Karmic Death: After X-23 ambushes him, she vents all her rage at his abuse, torture and dehumanisation by putting away the claws and spending the next ten minutes beating him until he’s nothing but a bloody mess just barely clinging to life, before leaving him to perish in the destruction of the Facility.
Kick The Son Of A Bitch: His ordering Martin Sutter death at X-23's hands is certainly meant to be a sign of just how off the slippery slope Rice has leaped, but damned if you don't feel Martin deserved it.
Manipulative Bastard: Rice plays Sutter like a fiddle. It's never made clear whether Sutter ignores Sarah's warnings about Rice's behavior because of this, him not believing her, or because he just plain doesn't care. But there's no doubt that Rice knew exactly what buttons to push to get Sutter to turn over control of the project to him.
Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Rice is a doctor, specifically a surgeon. He operates on and performs experiments on mutants in association with the Facility's attempts to recreate Weapon X, and many of the procedures he performs on X-23 fall way beyond the Moral Event Horizon (he shoves her in a radiation chamber and doses her with fatal levels of radiation at the age of seven just to forcibly activate her Healing Factor).
Offing the Offspring: Tries to pull this twice: First by deliberately leaving X-23 behind on a mission so she will be killed (Rice himself isn't her father, but played a substantial role in her creation). The second, is when he attempts to cover up evidence of his affair with Rachel Sutter by sending X-23 to kill her and his son with her.
The Power of Hate: All of his malicious, cruel, or sometimes downright psychotic actions has at least partly this at it's roots, for his hatred towards Wolverine for killing his father is the catalyst, and ultimately, the reason why he is so fucked in the head.
Psychopathic Manchild: Despite hiding it under a professional exterior, it’s clear from both his demeanour and his actions that under it all he’s only in it to hurt Laura for the murder of his father, all in a juvenile attempt to make Wolverine suffer. It doesn’t help that when behind closed doors or when feeling stressed he carries himself with the demeanour of an extremely unhinged, moody teenager.
Revenge by Proxy: Rice uses his father's death at Logan's hands to justify his horrific abuse of X-23.
Sadist: It's obvious throughout his torture and surgical experiments on X-23 that he is enjoying every single drop of pain that he is inflicting on the poor girl.
Self-Made Orphan: Sort of. Wolverine killed his father escaping the Weapon X installation, after which Sutter became his father-figure. Rice sends X-23 to kill him so he can have total control of the project.
The Sociopath: It's clear that he thoroughly enjoys tormenting the young X-23 beyond anything even unhealthy. He also has X-23 kill Sutter and Sarah once they have outlived their usefulness, and Sutter's wife and Henry, his own son by her, to cover up their affair. Henry only survives because Laura chose to spare him.
Tragic Keepsake: His father's dog tags.
Ungrateful Bastard: He is this to Martin Sutter. The man rased him after his father's death, gave him free rein on the project, and consistently backed him in almost every argument with Sarah. Rice repays him by sleeping with his wife behind his back and uses X-23 to murder him to take control of the project.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Rice is introduced in the story as a wide-eyed toddler being told by Martin Sutter his father wouldn't be coming home. It goes downhill from there.
Would Hurt a Child: He had zero qualms with hurting X-23 when she was younger, and even tries to use her to kill his own son at one point.
You Killed My Father: Well, Logan did, but he punishes X-23 for it by proxy.

Agents

Kimura

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Species: Human mutate

First appearance: X-23 #6 (May, 2005)

Kimura is a normal human who was modified by the Facility expressly to serve in the capacity of Laura's handler in the event she ever got out of control. A sadistic psychopath, Kimura inflicted severe physical and emotional abuse on her while she was at the Facility, and is obsessed with tracking her down and recovering her. Her body has been granted increased physical density, which makes her virtually indestructible.

Abusive Parents: Kimura's Freudian Excuse is that her mother neglected her, her father abused her, and she was subjected to a lot of bullying as a child. Her grandmother attempted to undo the damage, but by then it was too late and Kimura later takes it all out on Laura.
Achilles' Heel: Her body is indestructible, but she's just as vulnerable to gas or smoke inhalation, and drowning as would be any normal human. She's also weak to telepathic attacks as Emma Frost demonstrates.
Always Someone Better: Subverted. Kimura thinks she's this to Laura, however while she does demonstrate skill as a fighter, she relies much more on her indestructibility than actual ability. And while Laura may not be able to defeat her in a straight fight, she's demonstrated far more resourcefulness when dealing with her.
Ambiguously Brown: Her ethnicity is never established in the books, but she's consistently depicted as somewhat darker-complexioned with vaguely ethnic features than those around her. "Kimura" is also a Japanese surname, but whether this is actually her name or one she merely adopted after being modified by the Facility is never stated.
Arch-Enemy: Kimura becomes this for Laura in Target: X. Her indestructibility makes her impossible for Laura to kill with her claws. Additionally, their backgrounds are siimilar, granting even more parallels between the two.
Ax-Crazy: She's a violent and sadistic psychopath who actually enjoys the fact her job allows her to beat the shit out of a child. When she manages to catch up to Laura at Megan and Debbie's house, she's positively gleeful when she begins slowly pushing her finger into Megan's chest to punish Laura for running away.
The Brute: Although she leads the squad sent to retrieve Laura, in Target X, she's still working for the Facility as one of their main enforcers. Her methods...aren't exactly subtle, she's a sadistic bully who loves to torment Laura just because she can, and she relies mostly on her indestructibility to get the jobs done and is not nearly as clever as she likes to think; Laura can't beat her in a direct confrontation, and routinely defeats her by outsmarting her (such as distracting her by triggering an entire belt of grenades she's wearing in New X-Men).
The Bully: Torments others in order to feel better about herself.
The Bus Came Back: Issue 6 of All-New Wolverine reveals that Kimura provided the Sisters with the equipment and means to escape and destroy Alchemax Genetics, in retaliation for Alchemax stealing the Facility's property. Issue 14 reveals that she is responsible for the Daylesville Massacre.
Cleavage Window: Her most common outfit has one.
Crippling Overspecialization: Kimura relies almost entirely on her invulnerability. As a result, while Laura can't kill her with her claws, she's still the better fighter. This becomes a critical factor in her death: Had Kimura not relied so heavily on her indestructible body, she might have been able to fight off Laura's attempt to drown her in the sea off Madripoor.
Dark Action Girl: Kimura is able to hold her own against Laura in a hand-to-hand fight, even though it owes more to her indestructibility than skill. She's also an Ax-Crazy psychopath.
The Don: Is attempting to set herself up as this in Madripoor during "Enemy of the State II." By issue 16 she has already gained control of a large part of the island, however Tyger Tiger maintains the majority of the power and stands in her way.
Dragon Their Feet: Kimura wasn't present when Sarah kicked off Laura's escape from the Facility. Target X reveals she arrived in the aftermath, briefly cornering Laura before Laura triggered an avalanche to escape. She later tracks her to the Kinney household.
The Dreaded: Laura is generally unflappable in the face of danger, and responds to threats in a cool and detached manner. Kimura terrifies her. Laura later admits to Gabby in issue 13 of All-New Wolverine that Kimura is the only person she ever feared.
Dumb Muscle: At least in comparison to Laura. Kimura rarely demonstrates any strategy more elaborate than "beat it or torture it into submission."
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Her grandmother, who tried to save her from her father.
Expy: A case can be made that she's a slightly more sympathetic female Sabretooth.
Feel No Pain: When Kimura is using her invulnerability her nerves register impact but no pain.
Foe Romance Subtext: Kimura is positively obsessed with Laura, and takes great pleasure in torturing her whenever she has the opportunity (she approached taking a chainsaw to Laura's arm with rather disturbing enthusiasm). Much of her other behavior tends towards being stalkerish in nature, and is very comparable to that of an obsessive and jilted lover. This has not gone unnoticed by the fanbase and a certain segment has made Kimura's interest outright romantic or sexual (see Ship-to-Ship Combat under YMMV).
Freudian Excuse: She's a victim of abuse who went on to abuse others. When Emma Frost learns of this by reading her mind, she admits that Kimura's past was horrible.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: However, Emma is still unsympathetic and deeply disgusted with Kimura, pointing out she learned no empathy for people who suffer like she did, instead delighting in tormenting others in the same way. Emma doesn't hesitate to mind-wipe her, making her forget about her grandmother — the only influential positive person in her life — creating "a deep void that will cause [her] pain for a lifetime."
Emma Frost: You are a bully plain and simple. A product from your past... Being kicked around your whole life an alcoholic father and uncaring mother at home, only to find the same waiting for you from your peers in the schoolyard, day in and day out. You were born into a life you did not deserve... A life no child deserves. Someone needs to fill the role of the victim and you played that part for so many until your grandmother came to your rescue. She called you her "sweet child." She did everything she could to undo the damage everyone else had done. But sadly she came too late, all that hope and good you held onto was beaten out long ago. After your grandmother's heart attack, you found your way to the Facility to the men that could give what you wanted badly... Revenge. A hollow prize, but one you begged for. And once you'd gotten the best of those who wronged you, you became the very person you hated and feared growing up. And X-23 played the role of your victim. Like you, Laura didn't deserve that horrible life, no child does remember? But you didn't care. Even though you knew all too well the pain she suffered, you enjoyed inflicting it. You still enjoy it. That's why you're a bully.
Fights Like a Normal: Lacking any other powers, Kimura has to fight like a regular human being, albeit one who is entirely invulnerable. However her increased density does have some secondary effects. For example, she can push a finger through someone's skull.
The Heavy: Rice may be the Big Bad but Kimura is much more active than him.
I Have Your Wife: In All-New Wolverine, Kimura reveals she finally managed to track down Megan and Deborah Kinney, but rather than just kill them outright decided to use them as leverage against Laura. If she doesn't cooperate, or attempts to kill herself so Kimura is unable to use her as a weapon, she'll make good on their threat.
Implacable Man: She's had an entire belt full of grenades — that she was wearing at the time! — blow up in her face and got right back up again.
Kill It with Water: Her Nigh-Invulnerability allows her to tank pretty much everything thrown at her, although it doesn't make her immune to drowning, something that Laura capitalizes on to kill her at last at the end of her arc in All-New Wolverine.
Karmic Death: After sadistically abusing Laura for pretty much her entire life and dedicating her entire existence to making her suffer, the very person who she victimized over the years drowns her in shallow waters.
Killed Off for Real: Laura drowns her in the ocean after figuring out her Logical Weakness in issue 18 of All New Wolverine. The one thing Kimura didn't have enhancements to protect her from.
Knight of Cerebus: While All-New Wolverine has, on the whole, been Lighter and Softer than the usual fare for X-23, the mere mention of Kimura is a harbinger that things are about to get Darker and Edgier again.
Lack of Empathy: For everyone who isn't her grandmother.
Logical Weakness: Kimura's body is indestructible, and at some point she gained shielding against telepathy. However Kimura is still human, which means she still needs to breathe. Laura exploits this to finally put her down in All-New Wolverine.
Made of Iron: Kimura has been modified by the Facility with increased body density, effectively making her indestructible.
The Man Behind the Man: Kimura was behind the Sisters' escape and rampage against Alchemax Genetics. Not out of altruism, but as revenge against Alchemax for stealing their "property".
Nigh-Invulnerability: Her ability to shift her density enables her to harden her skin until not even adamantium can penetrate it. This is why she was assigned to handle X-23.
Psychic Block Defense: Kimura had shields implanted at some point after Emma Frost sent her to wipe out the Facility in New X-Men. It prevents Jean from taking control of her in the climax of Enemy of the State.
Psycho Ex-Girlfriend: Kimura's obsession with Laura often leaves her coming across like a psycho jilted lover.
Put on a Bus: Kimura disappears after Laura and Agent Morales destroy a Facility installation where the former has been imprisoned.
- The Bus Came Back: In All-New Wolverine.
Psychopathic Womanchild: Most of her sadistic psychopathy can be easily chalked up as Misplaced Retribution for her shitty childhood and bullying, if she’s not doing it to hide her own insecurities about herself.
Sadist: Of both the petty and borderline serial killer variety.
Slasher Smile: She often sports one◊ worthy◊ of The Joker himself. In one case she wears it while carving Laura up with a chainsaw.
Smug Snake: She's dangerous, but when she runs into someone who can actually hurt her (specifically, a wrathful Emma Frost), things do not end well for her.
The Sociopath: Gleefully psychotic, an extraordinary Lack of Empathy for everyone except her grandmother and completely unrepentant of her monstrous actions right up to the moment she finally expires at Laura’s hands.
Stone Wall: Doesn't hit any harder than a muggle but is virtually impossible to injure.
Super-Strength: Possesses this to a limited extent as a result of her increased body density. She's been shown putting her fist through the skull of a Predator X. For the record, these are creatures with hides that even Laura's and Wolverine's claws couldn't cut.
Torture Technician: She loves to torture Laura, and pretty much anyone Laura cares about even if they don't get in the way of recovering her. Her methods are fairly crude, however, as she usually relies on her bare hands, and threatens to use her heightened body density to push her hand into Megan's chest to rip out her heart.
Undignified Death: While not embarrassing, her death is neither pretty, nor a grand epic final battle between her and Laura, as Laura simply drowns her in the sea.
Unexpected Character: While long-time fans of X-23 expressed a hope to see Kimura again after she was Put on a Bus during X-Force, her sudden appearance in issue 6 caught readers and critics alike by surprise, delivering an epic Wham Shot to close out the first arc.
What Happened to the Mouse?: The last we see of her was in X-Force, when she threatened to hunt down and kill Laura's cousin and aunt, right before the Facility installation Laura had been held in gets blown up. Considering Kimura is pretty much indestructible it's almost certain she's still alive, but over five years after that issue was released she has yet to reappear. She returns in issue 6 of All-New Wolverine.
You Are Number 6: Kimura as a rule refers to Laura as X-23, and not by her "real" name.

Desmond Alexander

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Nationality: American

Species: Human

First appearance: X-23: Target X #1 (December, 2006)

Deborah Kinney's live-in boyfriend, Desmond was later revealed to be a mole planted by the Facility. It's unclear whether he was planted with her after Sarah was hired as a means of keeping tabs on her family, or if he was placed with her after X-23's escape in hopes she would turn up there. Regardless of which, he was ultimately killed by Laura when he accidentally spilled trigger scent on himself.

Hoist by His Own Petard: Kimura ordered him to dose Megan and Debbie with the trigger scent to force Laura to kill them. However he literally ran into Megan while carrying the doctored tea and spilled it all over the both of them. Laura subsequently tore him apart.
Idiot Ball: Of all the ways he could have tried dosing Debbie with trigger scent, putting it in her tea probably invited the most ways for it to go wrong. And it did, with lethal results (for him).
The Mole: Placed by the Facility, presumably to either keep tabs on Sarah Kinney's family, or to watch for X-23 to resurface after her escape.
Parent with New Paramour: He's the paramour. However, he's actually a Facility plant.
Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: He tries to spike Debbie's tea with the trigger scent in order to force Laura to kill her. He gets it on himself instead, and she ends up gutting him instead. No tears were shed.
Two First Names: Desmond and Alexander.
You're Not My Father: It's relatively subtle, but Megan has this attitude towards him.

Tanaka

Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human

First appearance: X-23 #2 (January, 2005)

X-23's sensei, who trains her in hand-to-hand combat, and is one of the only people to treat her as a human being.

Katanas Are Just Better: Spars with X-23 using a katana.
Old Master: A gentle example of this.
Parental Substitute: He displays a degree of grandfatherly affection for X-23, and treats her like an actual person rather than a weapon, despite his orders from Rice.
Sarah We were never to treat you as a child, only as a weapon, but not everyone followed those orders. I'm grateful for that.
Sacrificial Lion: Gets chosen as the test subject for the Trigger Scent, and X-23 subsequently tears him apart.

Alchemax Genetics

A division of the very same Alchemax founded by Norman Osborn, Alchemax Genetics is under the direction of Robert Chandler. They have succeeded in carrying out the Facility's plans and made several clones of Laura, though the girls lack her mutation. However Chandler secretly has other plans for the project that his bosses are unaware of.

In General

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Black Site: The bunker where Chandler and his project retreat to after Mooney's failures to recapture the Sisters in issues 2 and 3. It becomes not-so-secret after Mooney inadvertently leads Laura and the Sisters right to it.
Covert Group: While Alchemax Genetics itself is public, their operations are highly-classified. And in fact, are so secret that even Chandler's superiors don't know what he's really up to. And will be very angry if they ever found out.
Evil, Inc.: Even compared to its parent company. Alchemax Genetics experiments are extremely illegal, immoral, and constitute a major threat to militaries everywhere. And Chandler has no desire for his bosses to find out what he's really up to.
For Science!: At least for the two scientists who survived the Sisters' original escape.
Mad Scientist Laboratory: What the Alchemax Genetics labs ultimately boil down to. The one in the bunker especially, featuring tables for dissecting the specimens.
MegaCorp: Alchemax Genetics is, as its name implies, a division of one.
Punch-Clock Villain: The two scientists in the bunker are pretty much just there for the regular paycheck. They willingly give up everything on the project to create the Sisters to Laura rather than face the prospect of being hunted down later.

Mooney

Captain Mooney

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First appearance: All-New Wolverine #2 (November, 2015)

Chief of security at Alchemax. Mooney contacts Laura about stopping the Sisters after she foils their attempt to assassinate the son of Robert Chandler. A very large and imposing figure, he would prefer to handle the matter himself, but acknowledges that Alchemax needs Laura's help. Bellona implies that Mooney was the Sisters' jailer before their escape, and may have had a hand in abusing them.

Attack! Attack! Attack!: Mooney attacks Laura and the Sisters every chance he gets. Even after he's been ordered to stand down and basically pack up his belongings by Chandler.
Bald of Authority: Bald and commands Alchemax's security.
Berserk Button: Takes it personally when Zelda stands up to him and reminds him that no matter how much pain he actually tried to inflict on the Sisters, he was never actually able to hurt them. He kills her for it.
The Big Guy: He's enormous, and has to bend down to be One Head Taller than Laura.
The Bully: Zelda and Bellona both refer to him as this. He took advantage of his position as the clones' jailer to abuse them and push them around. He's remarkably less effective when pitted against people actually able to fight back.
Clones Are People, Too: Mooney outright refuses to acknowledge the Sisters — and even Laura — as actual people, only referring to them as "experiments."
Determinator: Mooney will. Not. Stop. coming after Laura and the Sisters. Even after she kicks his ass twice, and Chandler directly orders him to stand down, he continues to pursue them.
The Dragon: Chandler's second-in-command, and head of his security forces.
Expendable Clone: When Mooney tracks Laura down to the Sisters' hideout, he has no qualms against just mowing them down.
For the Evulz: While Chandler masks his treatment of the Sisters with For Science! and Money, Dear Boy, Mooney is simply a sadistic bastard who tortures and abuses the girls just because he can.
The Heavy: Mooney's pursuit of the Sisters helps drive the plot in issues two and three, and comes back hard to kick them in issue five. Mooney is also the one the Sisters focus the majority of their hatred on. They may want to take down Alchemax Genetics in general, but with Mooney It's Personal.
It's Personal: Alchemax Genetics may have created the environment of abuse, and callously disregarded their lives, but Mooney is the one the Sisters actively despise.
Jerkass: Openly disdainful of the Sisters, not even acknowledging them as being people. Laura immediately calls him out on this.
Killed Offscreen: When Bellona and Gabby finally run him down, Bellona makes Gabby wait around the corner while she finishes him off. The panel focuses its attention on Gabby, so we don't actually see Bellona kill him, only hear the gunshots.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
- He disregards his orders to pursue the clones to Hank Pym's labs when Laura and Jan inadvertently activate a homing beacon by attacking the nanites killing Zelda. It gets him captured for his trouble, and unfortunately for Alchemax, he knows exactly where the project that created the clones is holed up...
- In issue 6 Bellona tells him that the only reason they're even on their rampage in the first place is because of what he did to them. Had he not been such a sadistic bastard they would have been content to just walk away and disappear.
Properly Paranoid: When Laura arrives at Alchemax, Mooney insists on having her restrained until he can verify her identity. Perfectly justified, as the Sisters are trying to kill everyone at Alchemax, and they just happen to be Laura's clones. Laura, of course, quickly reveals she could have escaped his restraints at any time, and was just playing along.
- Subverted when issue 3 reveals that he actually used it as a means of planting a tracker bug on her.
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Gets one from Bellona right before she kills him.
Sadist: Zelda outright calls him this. He was the guy Alchemax hired to control and contained the Sisters, and while we didn't get to see their treatment at his hands, the girls make it clear that he was an abusive bully who enjoyed torturing them for his own amusement. Zelda is easily able to push his Berserk Button by reminding him of his frustration over their inability to actually feel the pain he inflicted on them. It ultimately costs her her life.
Slasher Smile: Sports a wicked one when he shoots Zelda after she reminds him that no matter what he does to the Sisters he can never truly hurt them.
You Have Failed Me: Chandler basically tells him this over not only his failure to reacquire the clones, but the fact that his failures have been spectacularly public. He only tells Mooney that his contract is terminated, but there's a veiled threat to sic Taskmaster on him.

Robert Chandler

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Nationality: American

Species: Human cyborg

First appearance: All-New Wolverine #2 (November, 2015)

The director of Alchemax, Laura saved his son from assassination. He requests Laura's aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else, claiming that they've grown twisted. Chandler was later revealed to have been part of the Facility itself, where he developed the Trigger Scent used to control X-23.

Bald of Evil: He doesn't have a hair on his head, and leads a project carrying out not only illegal human cloning experiments and enslaving the results, but the nanites taking away the Sisters' ability to feel pain were designed from the start as a means of killing and incapacitating soldiers in combat, and he's just using the girls to test the technology while seeing how long it takes for them to drop. Technology he intended to sell to the highest bidder.
Bad Boss: It's subtly suggested that Chandler intends to have Taskmaster deal with Mooney over his incompetence after he "terminates" the contract. However, Laura and the Sisters catch up to them both before any possible cleanup plans can go beyond words.
Beard of Evil: It goes with this Bald of Evil.
Big Bad: Of the first arc of All-New Wolverine. He plays the victim to get Laura's help, but it's made clear very quickly that he's only trying to manipulate her.
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Director of Alchemax Genetics, and involved in some very shady business that he's concealing from his own bosses. In fact, Chandler outright expresses his fears to Mooney over what might happen should they learn what he's really up to. Considering who actually founded parent company Alchemax, that's saying a lot.
Evil Cripple: He's back to his old tricks in issue 8 of X-23 Vol 4., attempting to perfect the X-23 project and his efforts to replicate it with The Sisters by creating the X-Assassin. He's also sporting animatronic prosthetic knees after Laura Kneecaped him in All-New Wolverine #6.
Karma Houdini: Played with. Chandler thinks he's going to be one, and smugly tells Laura he's just going to walk away from their encounter because he's backed by some very powerful people. Laura quickly disabuses him of that notion, especially because he can't walk away without hamstrings... On the other hand, though Chandler fully deserves to die for the things he's done, and Laura and Gabby would have been completely justified killing him, he's still allowed to live in the end.
Manipulative Bastard: When Laura meets with him at Alchemax's offices he thanks her for saving his son, and requests her aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else. He outwardly claims to understand Laura's objections to Mooney dehumanizing the girls, but states that something went wrong and they grew twisted, and shows her video indicating the Sisters destroyed an Alchemax research center, murdering everyone inside in the process. And once Laura sets out to track them down, he goes behind her back to hire Taskmaster to take the girls down, has Laura implanted with a tracking device so Mooney and Tasky can follow her, and it turns out his claims that the girls lack any sort of empathy or conscience are rubbish. The Sisters also protest their innocence over destroying the facility, claiming all they had time for was their own escape (though Bellona acknowledges she would have liked to blow it up).
Money, Dear Boy: Everything he's doing is motivated purely for the massive amounts of money he claims his experiments are worth. He even has the brass balls to tell Laura that it's so valuable, that he's going to just walk away from her dismantling the operation. She quickly and literally disabuses proves him otherwise.
Mr. Exposition: Chandler fills Laura (and the reader) in on who the Sisters are, as well as helping establish why she was in Paris in issue 1.
Reasonable Authority Figure: At least compared to Mooney. He at least pretends to take Laura's objections to Mooney's dismissal of the Sisters being human seriously, and offers a plausible explanation. He's also lying through his teeth.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Tries to pull this when Laura and the Sisters attack his base. Laura catches him stuffing his briefcase with as much project material as he could and prevents his escape.
Smug Snake: He has such an elevated opinion of his importance — including claims to some very powerful connections who believe the ends of his project justify the means — that he firmly believes he's going to walk away from Alchemax Genetics' destruction. Laura very clearly, and literally, proves him wrong.

Orphans of X

A mysterious organization with a thirst for vengeance against Logan's family.

In General

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The Blank: Their masks lack any sort of observable eye holes, which just makes them even creepier.
The Conspiracy: They apparently have members everywhere, even within the military and S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, almost all of their members seen thus far are just ordinary people whose lives and families have been destroyed by Wolverine and his offspring.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: The entire reason for their vendetta is because many had loved ones killed by the various Wolverines.
Even Evil Has Standards: They very deliberately spare Captain Marvel's life, because they consider her an innocent bystander in their vendetta.
- They eventually shift their plans away from Laura once they learn that she's as much a victim as they are, and then join with her in hunting down the people who ordered her hits.
Evil Plan: They want to wipe out Wolverine, his progeny, and everyone like him so they can't hurt anyone else.
Heel–Face Turn: Laura is able to convince them that their real enemies, the ones who deserve their hate, are those who paid the Facility to have her kill them, while revealing how she was tortured as a child. She even joins them in the end.
It's Personal: Their primary motivation: All of them have had their families negatively impacted by Logan, Daken, Laura, and other mutants like them, and they're striking back for revenge, and to prevent it from happening to anyone else. They notably don't finish off Carol Danvers when they have her at their mercy, because she's innocent of the crimes they blame Logan and the others for.
Knight of Cerebus: Their arrival heralds a much darker and more serious turn for the story, and present perhaps the biggest threat of any antagonist in the series thus far.
Malevolent Masked Man: The Orphans of X wear black masks marked with an X across the face. They first appear in issue 22 as a lone masked figure watching Laura depart earth with the Guardians of the Galaxy, before alerting someone over phone to switch their attention to Daken. They appear in full for the first time in issue 25, and after ambushing Daken at a Bad Guy Bar the entire crowd dons the same masks.
More Dakka: They are armed for bear. One scene in issue 26 reveals an entire fleet of cars filled with members all packing automatics and submachine guns.
Paranoia Fuel: The creepy masks are bad enough, but the fact that they're just regular, ordinary folks with mundane lives and day jobs just adds to their menace. Anyone Laura meets could be one of them, and they have no qualms about striking without warning, or using those close to Laura (such as her mother) to get close to her. The Orphans are everywhere, there's hundreds of them, and there's no way to be sure until they spring their trap.
Villain Has a Point: The Orphans are furious Laura is viewed as a hero despite the blood on her hands, and intend to murder her, Daken, and pretty much everyone else from Logan's extended family/mutation type in retaliation for the friends and family they've lost at their hands, and to ensure they can never hurt anyone again. Considering the sheer amount of damage an amoral monster like Sabretooth has caused over the years, and that even Laura killed hundreds — if not thousands — of people before she swore off killing, they're not entirely wrong about the number of innocent lives they have destroyed.
Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: In their first full appearance, they somehow manage to arrange for an F-16 to launch an airstrike on the Bad Guy Bar where they've cornered Daken. Escalated further in issue 27, where they are able to commandeer spy satellites, have a C-130 equipped with some sort of teleporter, and even have equipment capable of disabling Captain Marvel.

Amber Griffen

The apparent leader of the Orphans of X, or at least the one directing their attacks on Laura and her family. Even more so than the others she has a personal vendetta against Laura herself.

Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She is in a relationship with Henry Sutter, who helps to melt down the Muramasa Blade and forge it into bullets.
Even Evil Has Standards: Amber is actually shocked to learn not only that Laura was tortured and forced to kill, but that Henry knew it all along.
It's Personal: Perhaps even more so than the rest of the Orphans.
The Leader: Amber appears to be the one in charge of the Orphans, and directs them in their efforts to reclaim the Muramasa Blade, the attack on Laura, Gabby, and Daken as they await transport to Madripoor, and the executions of Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, and Lady Deathstrike.
Leave Him to Me!: When Amber orders their Japanese contacts to deal with Laura's group in Tokyo, she gives specific instructions that Laura is hers alone.
You Killed My Father: Her father was one of the Secret Service agents assigned to Greg Johnson, and who Laura killed during her test mission.

Henry Sutter

The son of Rachel Sutter and (unknown to him) Zander Rice, Henry has joined the Orphans of X for revenge against Wolverine. He serves as a metallurgist, bonding the metal of the Muramasa Blade to bullets to provide them with a weapon against Wolverine, and has also entered into a relationship with Amber.

Comic-Book Time: Henry was no older than around 7-8 at the time Laura killed his family. Per Taylor he was meant to be about 18 years old. However Laura was 13 when she killed his parents and escaped the Facility. With her being 20 years old, that means he should be no older than 14-15.
The Bus Came Back: He returns after last being seen when Laura spares his life in X-23: Innocence Lost.
Dramatic Irony: Henry is unaware that Martin Sutter is not his biological father, and that his biological father Zander Rice sent X-23 to kill his parents to gain total control of the project for himself, and cover up the affair with his mother Rachel.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He's romantically involved with Amber.
It's Personal: Laura killed his mother and the man he believed to be his father (and his actual father, though his mother was killed before she could confess the affair).
The Lancer: Henry is second-in-command or co-leads the Orphans with Amber. It was Henry's anger at seeing Laura honored over Roosevelt Island who transformed the Orphans from a simple support group, to an organization bent on exterminating mutants like Logan and Laura.
Survivor Guilt: Henry believes that Laura should have killed him, as well.
Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When last we saw him, he was an innocent little boy Rice intended to have killed to cover up an affair. Now he's fully committed to cold-blooded murder against Laura and any mutant like her.
Villainous BSoD: Henry begins to lose it when Laura doesn't play into what he wanted, and talks to the Orphans rather than attacking. He only unravels further when she reveals the truth about her past, and that Henry withheld her torturous upbringing at the hands of (both) his fathers from the rest of the Orphans.
You Killed My Father: Henry is driven by Laura's killing of his (not actual) father and mother.
Younger Than They Look: Word of God confirms that Henry's aged appearance is the result of the stress of everything he's been through since Laura spared his life.

Ira

One of two members of the organization tasked with working on Daken after his capture. He takes a direct hand in torturing him when his partner, Lisa, is unable to continue any more.

Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: His ultimate fate; stabbed through the head by Daken when he gets too cocky about his work.
Smug Snake: With Daken at his mercy he gleefully remarks how he's going to make him scream. However he's got nothing to back it up; the moment Daken gets loose he's finished.
Torture Cellar: He and Lisa operate a torture chamber in the basement of an ordinary suburban home. They take Daken there to hack off his arm as a message for Laura.
Torture Technician: He's Daken's main torturer. While Lisa gets squeamish and is unable to continue, he positively relishes the opportunity.

Jasmine

Jasmine was a member of the Orphans given only a month to live by her doctor. She was part of the team sent to recover the Muramasa Blade, and died disabling Captain Marvel.

And This Is for...: She drops this quote right before she dives out of the Orphans' plane to attack Captain Marvel, doing it for her daughter, Alice.
Made of Explodium: Whatever her Powered Armor is, when it goes up the blast is powerful enough to knock even Carol senseless.
Powered Armor: Jasmine wears a combination suit of armor/bomb that she uses to dive-bomb Carol.
Suicide Attack: She made her attack on Captain Marvel knowing it would kill her.
Your Days Are Numbered: Her doctor only gave her a month to live, which is why she volunteered for the Suicide Attack.

Lisa

A doctor working with Ira on torturing and breaking Daken. She's the one who hacked off his arm, and the Torture Cellar appears to be in her home.

An Arm and a Leg: She hacks off Daken's recently regrown arm as a message to Laura.
Big Brother Is Watching: While Ira works on Daken, she retreats to her living room to monitor the camera feed coming from Sarah.
Deadly Doctor: Lisa is a doctor, who uses her medical knowledge to help torture Daken by cutting off his arm. Ira makes a point of noting to Daken that the only reason she's violating her Hippocratic Oath is because she hates Daken that much, however she's unable to continue after that.
Friend to All Living Things: When she's not working she helps rescue dogs, particularly pit bulls and rottweilers, believing there's some good in them despite their reputations. The irony of this is not lost when Ira points out that Daken is too far for even her.
Right-Hand Attack Dog: She has several dogs in the house, implied to be rescues she's taken in. She sics them on Daken once he breaks free of their Torture Cellar.
Torture Cellar: She and Ira operate a torture chamber in the basement of an ordinary suburban home. They take Daken there to hack off his arm as a message for Laura.

Other Antagonists

Hellverine

Nationality: Hell

Species: Demon

Appeared in: X-23 Vol. 3

A demon who has taken control of Wolverine's body as part of a plot by the Red Right Hand to take revenge on Logan by killing those close to him. During his time masquerading as Logan on Utopia he approaches Laura with a disturbing proposal.

Abhorrent Admirer: Hellverine wants Laura to lead his armies. However his interest in her seems far more personal than that, especially when he approaches her in the form of (a naked) Cyclops, stroking her face and commenting on her looks.
Chess with Death: Laura makes a bargain with him: If she can prove his assertions that she's nothing but a killing machine wrong, he'll leave her alone and restore Hellion's life. If she fails, she's his. Laura defeats him with the aid of the Uni-Power.
Demonic Possession: He's a demon currently using Logan's body in the real world while he's trapped in hell. He also possesses Laura directly, hitch-hiking in her body for a time.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He honestly doesn't understand Laura's resistance to give in to her training and violent nature.
Fire and Brimstone Hell: His domain resembles one.
Foe Romance Subtext: Hellverine comes after Laura because he wants her to lead his armies. However it's very heavily implied he just plain wants her. Particularly his behavior when he takes on the form of a naked Cyclops.
Glamour Failure: Although he's able to fool everyone else (particularly Hellion, who almost pays the price for it), somehow he's not able to trick Laura, and she's aware there's something wrong with him from the beginning, even if she's not sure what.
Hypocrite: He dismisses Gamesmaster, whom he caught in Laura's mind, as a pedophile. It doesn't seem to occur to Hellverine that he's essentially doing the exact same thing to her.
Meat Puppet: Logan's body is the puppet, Hellverine is the puppeteer.
No-Sell: Laura stabs him through the heart with her claws when he molests her in the hospital, but it doesn't even tickle him. At least until Hellion walks in by chance...
Puppeteer Parasite: He's a demon inhabiting Logan's body.
Slouch of Villainy: Just look at his image.
The Soulless: Hellverine attempts to sway to his side by telling her that as a clone she doesn't have a soul. Although she throws off his influence, this continues to haunt her throughout her solo series.
Stalker with a Crush: Much like Gamesmaster he doesn't believe in No Means No, and continues to hound her until she's ultimately able to throw off his presence and influence.
We Can Rule Together: He wants Laura to lead his armies, but he also seems to want her as much as a consort than just a general.
Wreathed in Flames: After destroying a halfway house for depowered mutants he manifests to Laura balrog-style in the wreckage as part of his attempts to sway her to his side.

Hooded Woman

"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."

Appeared in: X-23 Vol. 3

A woman whose features are obscured by a hood, with some connection to Laura's past. She appears twice during the Liu series, the first time working with Colcord in Madripoor, and procuring samples taken from Laura in the "Collision" crossover with Daken. She next turns up as the primary antagonist of "Touching Darkness," where she has unleashed a new form of trigger scent on the population of Paris that not affects anyone exposed to it, even without prior conditioning.

Black Cloak: Worn with her hood, further helping to hide her identity.
Connected All Along: The Hooded Woman has some sort of connection to Laura, and even cryptically hints at it with a quote from Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, by Hunter S. Thompson.
"As you were, I was. As I am, you will be."
Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Her face is always obscured by a hood, leaving only her mouth and chin visible.
In the Hood: Perhaps her most prominent feature is the hood masking her features.
Non-Action Big Bad: She never directly engages Laura, preferring to watch from a distance, instead.
No Name Given: Her name and identity are never revealed.
Playing with Syringes: She was working with Colcord developing weapons in Madripoor, and Laura recognizes her voice and scent, though she never saw her while imprisoned. When she turns up in Paris, Laura, Wolverine, Gambit, and Jubilee discover that she has developed a version of the trigger scent that works on anyone, not just Laura (who was specially conditioned for it), and is experimenting with it by unleashing it on the unsuspecting people of Paris.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulls this on Laura after cryptically hinting that she's connected to Laura's past and future, then vanishing before she can get an explanation.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Though she promised to see Laura again, in which they would discuss her (Laura's) future, she has yet to reappear.
You All Share My Story: As noted under Connected All Along, she leaves Laura with a quote Hunter S. Thompson hinting that their lives are somehow intertwined.

The Whirldemons

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Species: Demons

Appeared in: X-23 Vol. 3

The Whirldemons are spectral monsters imprisoned long ago by Prince Wayfinder in order to protect the Macroverse and Microverse, by using the Enigma Force to imprison them behind a barrier between the two universes called the Spacewall. They are savage, cruel, and violent, and seek a means to escape from their prison and resume their reign of terror on earth. Laura encountered them while seeking out the son of one of her victims from her time as an assassin in order to confront her past, and battled their King with the assistance of the Future Foundation, Spider-Man, and the Uni-Power.

Demonic Possession: The King of the Whirldemons possesses Valeria Richards as part of his attempts to tear down the Spacewall so the rest of the demons can escape. Laura later sacrifices herself, and allows him to possess her instead to save Val. It's also part of a gambit to trick him into returning to his prison dimension, where she can use the Enigma Force to repair the breach in the Spacewall and imprison him once again.
Eldritch Abomination: An entire army of them, imprisoned beyond the Spacewall separating the Microverse from the Macroverse (the main Marvel universe).
Large and in Charge: The Whirldemon King is by far the largest of the demons.
Sealed Evil in a Can: And they want out.
Smug Snake: The King has a very high opinion of himself, and dismisses Laura as a serious threat. It leads him to missing a very obvious clue she's more than she appears to be...
Too Dumb to Live: The Whirldemon King recognizes the mark on the palm of Laura's hand — left after her encounter with Hellverine — and its association with Prince Wayfinder. Yet somehow he doesn't put two and two together just what he's really dealing with until after Laura blasts him with the Enigma Force.

The X-Assassin

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Species: Human cyborg clone

Appeared in: X-23 Vol. 4

A cybernetic assassin who has been murdering scientists in the genetic engineering field, Laura and Gabby have been called in to help the police investigate.

Anti-Regeneration: The Assassin was engineered so her biological processes will shut down after severe injury, as part of her planned obsolescence.
Blade Below the Shoulder: The Assassin has two heavy, bowie knife-style blades in each forearm.
Cyborg: The X-Assassin is a cyborg and clone of X-23 implanted with a variety of weapons, including blades and a magnetic blaster.
EMP: One of the Assassin's arms houses a magnetic blaster.
Family Eye Resemblance: Her green eyes are appropriate, since the Assassin was created using Laura's genetic material.
Healing Factor: Notable by its absence. Chandler deliberately shredded the already-damaged the X-gene when creating the Assassins to ensure their healing abilities would not function.
Heel–Face Turn: The X-Assassin that Laura and Gabby capture eventually helps them take out Chandler and the other X-Assassins thanks to Gabby's influence.
Human Weapon: The Assassin was designed by Chandler to be the ultimate expression of the X-23 project, by creating a cybernetic killer with no shred of humanity.
"It" Is Dehumanizing: Laura insists on calling the Assassin "it" rather than "she," which becomes a point of contention between her and Gabby, with Gabby identify with the Assassin as another Sister.
Taking You with Me: She sacrifices herself to take out Chandler, destroying the controls of his helicopter and ensuring him a fiery death at the cost of her own life.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Although Laura accepted the Sisters without question, she's much more hostile towards the Assassin, using "it" rather than "her" or "she," and expressing doubts whether the Assassin has a will or mind of its own. What the Assassin thinks about being a clone (or cyborg) has yet to be explored.
Wound That Will Not Heal: The X-Assassin has been designed so that not only is their Healing Factor disabled, but a severe wound will shut down their biological processes.

Red Hornet

Melinda McDonough/Red Hornet

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The niece of the Hornet, Eddie McDonough, Melinda targets Wolverine in retaliation for her uncle's death during the original "Enemy of the State" event.

Affirmative-Action Legacy: A woman taking on the mantle of a man.
Alliterative Name: Melinda McDonough.
Animal-Themed Superbeing: She dubs herself Red Hornet, her armor is vaguely wasp/hornet-like in design, and she calls her secret workshop her "nest".
Anti-Villain: She's really not a bad person, just a bit misguided. Unfortunately she was so consumed by her desire for vengeance she forgot to do basic fact-checking before actually putting her plot into motion. Like making sure her intended target was still alive.
Basement-Dweller: Has spent all of her time since Wolverine (Logan) killed her uncle planning her revenge, and completely cut herself off from the outside world. As a result she missed out on a few important developments, such as Logan himself having died.
Bungling Inventor: She intended to just 'port Wolverine (Logan, not Laura) to another dimension to get rid of him. Her portal gun swapping Laura's and Gwen's minds was completely unexpected.
Child Prodigy: Was incredibly intelligent from even a young age. Her parents thought there was something wrong with her, but her uncle Eddie realized she was actually a genius, and encouraged her intellectual development.
Color Animal Codename: Red Hornet.
Gadgeteer Genius: Invents a gun that can forcibly teleport people to other dimensions. And apparently swap their consciousnesses with anyone who happens to be standing in the exact same spot in the destination universe. However the latter appears to have been unintentional and she only thinks she can make it work deliberately to fix the whole mess.
Hero Antagonist: She actually means well. Her motivation was strictly to prevent Wolverine from causing any more damage than he already has, and didn't intend to attack Laura and Gwen at all. She just failed to be sure of what she was pointing her portal gun at before pulling the trigger.
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Again, it stretches the definition of "villain," but she's certainly ineffectual; Melinda nearly loses her lunch when Gwen accidentally stabs herself in the face, and the only reason she managed as well as she did against Laura and Gwen was because her opponents weren't in their own bodies, so not in full control of their powers. As for sympathetic, she was motivated entirely out of a desire to prevent Wolverine from causing any more damage, like he did during the original "Enemy of the State".
Legacy Character: For Eddie McDonough, though she goes by the name Red Hornet instead.
Mistaken Identity: Attacks Laura with her portal gun believing she's Logan. Not so much a matter of Melinda confusing her for Laura, but that she just plain didn't bother to check. She just aimed her gun at the apartment and fired.
Powered Armor: She designed and built a new suit based on the original Hornet armor.
Revenge Before Reason: Had Melinda actually stopped and taken a moment to think about what she was doing (or even, y'know, kept tabs on what was happening around her) she would have realized just how pointless her vendetta was: Not only was Logan Brainwashed and Crazy when he killed her uncle and not in control of his actions, but by the time she was ready to put her plan into motion he was already dead.
Vomiting Cop: Well, Vomiting Villain. When Gwen-as-Laura accidentally snikts herself in the head after misjudging the length of Laura's claws, Melinda nearly hurls into her helmet.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Motivated entirely out of a desire to prevent Wolverine from hurting anyone else.
You Killed My Father: Well, uncle. And Laura had nothing to do with it, as that was Logan. She just happened to be living in Logan's apartment when Melinda put her plot for vengeance into motion.

Characters / Wolverine: Rogues Gallery

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Logan’s Rogues Gallery

Albert and Elsie-Dee

Species: Android

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #37 (1991)

Birdy

Nationality: Canadian, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men Vol. 2, #6 (1992)

Bloodscream

Nationality: British

Species: Human pseudo-vampire

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #4

Citadel / Weapon Y

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Wolverine: First Class #5 (2008)

Winsor / Contagion

Nationality: Latverian

Species: Human mutate

First Appearance: Wolverine: The Best There Is Vol. 1, #1

Cookie Malone

Species: Human

First Appearance: Origin Vol. 1, #4

Silas Burr / Cyber / Hornet

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human mutant cyborg

First Appearance: Marvel Comics Presents Vol. 1, #85 (1991)

Daken / Akihiro

First Appearance: Wolverine: Origins Vol. 1, #5

Bentley Newton / Algernon J. Rottwell / Doctor Rot

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine: Weapon X Vol. 1, #6

Dog Logan

Nationality: Canadian

Species: Human

First Appearance: Origin Vol. 1, #1 (2001)

Nationality: American

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 4, #1

AKA: Tyler Dayspring, Tolliver, the Other

First Appearance (as Genesis): Cable Vol. 2, #18 (1994)

Tomi Shishido / Gorgon

Notable Aliases: The Spear in the East, Wolverine, Red Lord, Supreme Hydra

Nationality: Japanese, Krakoan

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Wolverine (Vol. 3) #20 (December, 2005)

Hunter in Darkness

AKA: He Who Stalks On Moonless Nights, The Lurker

Nationality: Canadian

Species: ???

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #34 (1990)

Iron Monk

Species: Human

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #108 (1996)

Yuriko Oyama / Lady Deathstrike

Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human cyborg

First Appearance: Daredevil Vol. 1, #197 (1983)

Frank Charles Simpson / Nuke

Nationality: American

Species: Human cyborg

First Appearance: Daredevil #232 (1986)

Nationality: Japanese

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Kitty Pryde and Wolverine #1 (1984)

Arkady Gregorivich Rossovich / Omega Red

Nationality: Russian

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: X-Men Vol. 2, #4 (1992)

Persephone

Species: Human mutant

First Appearance: Hunt for Wolverine: Dead Ends (2018)

Romulus

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 3, #50 (2007)

Roughouse

First Appearance: Wolverine Vol. 2, #4 (1989)

Victor Creed / Sabretooth

First Appearance: Iron Fist Vol. 1, #14 (1977)